Hillel 818 held its ninth annual dinner celebration at Valley Beth Shalom on Jan. 28, honoring professors Donald Bleich, Zev Garber and Rita R. Werner with Distinguished Educator Awards. The dinner centerpieces, filled with needed school supplies, were donated to Community Build, an organization that helps at-risk youth. Hillel 818 represents more than 8,000 Jewish students at Pierce and Los Angeles Valley colleges and CSUN.
The law demanded unanimity. An ancient Jewish court might have taught us to be suspicious of it.
This year on Yom Kippur, I will stand for Yizkor, and I will say my mother’s name, for the first time.
While it’s normal to bemoan the hate that comes our way, let’s be grateful that we’re not the ones doing the hating; that we’re not allowing hate to corrode our souls; that we still have the power and the wisdom to be happy.
Bibi-ism has been the nation’s dominant philosophy for a generation. That may be about to change.
The two-vehicle collision occurred Saturday morning at the intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Densmore Avenue, where VBS is located.
In standing up to Macklemore and declaring, “I was born a Jew,” Pink did something painfully rare in today’s entertainment world: she refused to abandon her people when supporting Jews became unfashionable.
The 9/11 families who asked him to stay away were not judging his beliefs about G-d. They were responding to what he has said, whom he has hired and endorsed and whom he chooses to associate with.
Neilah means “closing.” It’s the fifth and final prayer of Yom Kippur, the one no other day of the year has.
Opportunities include internships in biomedical research, engineering and 3D printing, high-tech, investment banking, communications, government and nonprofits, and marine life and zoology.
The United States once attached “Never Forget” as a catchphrase of post-9/11 memory. Its people, however, are now fast forgetting, flirting instead with the descendants and sympathizers of those who flew those planes.
Have you noticed that we’re hearing “Shana Tova” a lot more than “Shabbat Shalom”?
If episode one was the brain of this two-part 9/11 series, episode two is the heart.
This is a season when we think about obligations and about what we owe one another. Here is a communal obligation, arvut hadadit, that we can actually meet.
Our Parent, our Sovereign – I’m embarrassed to tell You we have not been great.
The thing with labels is that they stick. That is a good thing for a group like the Nazis, but to nonchalantly slap the “genocide” label on Israel and its supporters is criminal.
Rosh Hashana is reserved for soulful transformation: Resolving to be something different in the Jewish new year.
