The adversaries are at each other\’s throats, time is running out, the world is forced to take sides. I\’m not talking about Israel and the Palestinians, I\’m speaking of Al Gore and George W. Bush.\n
Shiva calls are always difficult, but what do you say to a family who sits numbed by the unspeakable violence committed against their 35-year-old son and played on TV screens all over the world?
We are able to deal with this situation,\” says Yisrael Medad, a veteran, American-born settlement activist, \”because we remember what happened in 1947 to \’48. We are returning to our history.\”
Gil Garcetti is down but not out, at least among his Jewish supporters. With the district attorney race between Garcetti and Steve Cooley heating up, Jewish community activists are still strongly behind him, even as he faces what polls and pundits are calling a fight to the finish.
Fearing that the crisis in the Middle East could spill over into a wave of terrorism in Europe, Jewish communities and police across Europe are on their highest state of alert in a decade.
Fearing that the crisis in the Middle East could spill over into a wave of terrorism in Europe, Jewish communities and police across Europe are on their highest state of alert in a decade.
With the escalation of violence in the Middle East, many within Los Angeles\’ Jewish community are turning to the local chapters of organizations that raise money or garner support for Israel to gather information, lend their support or as a way of voicing their opinions.
During a month when the Jewish state has experienced some of its worst violence in years, nearly 1,500 people arrived at the Westwood synagogue to take part in a show of support for Israel.
Amidst a sea of Israeli and American flags and elongated balloons decorated with the Star of David, more than 1,000 Israeli residents of Los Angeles rallied in front of the Federal Building in Westwood on Oct. 15 to demonstrate support for their native country in the face of heightened violence and confrontations.
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