I’ve always worked in the service industry. I was a butler for 11 years before I became a maître d’. My job is to make customers feel at home, to anticipate what they might need, to have empathy. I’m on my way home. My commute is a little bit over an hour, but I enjoy it. Being from the Netherlands, I’m used to trains.
Del Mar Blvd. to Cahuenga Blvd.
#myLAcommute is a project of Zócalo Public Square
The Oct. 7 attack and the subsequent sharp rise in antisemitism nationwide hung like a shadow over an already-somber event.
Zionists understand that Jews are a people not just a religion, with millennia-old ties to one particular homeland, and the right to build a state on that homeland.
While both crises feature a centrist president being targeted by an aggressive anti-war movement, the differences between Gaza and Vietnam are immense.
To Hillel International: I stand unequivocally with you, your resilient students and your devoted staff.
The Jewish community must learn several important lessons from the civil rights movement if they want to end the occupation of US campuses by anti-Israel and antisemitic groups.
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