Standing with the crowd in Netanya where, hours before, a Palestinian suicide bomber had killed three Israelis and himself, local carpenter Ya\’acov Ohayon was asked if he thought the public — the home front — was ready for more of the same, or worse.
My brother and I are sitting on the kitchen floor cutting pipe. Actually, he\’s cutting and I\’m criticizing. This combines two venerable family traditions.
Rob Eshman\’s attack on supposed Jewish hypocrisy is really an attack on Jewish ethics and morals (\”Shocked, Shocked,\” March 2).
Several weeks ago, the eminent Harvard sociologist Nathan Glazer, one of the renowned New York intellectuals chronicled in the film \”Arguing the World,\” came to town for a lecture and seminar at UCLA.
Hold on to that Purim spirit of dressing up and learn a bit about Israeli history today when historical impressionist Peter M. Small performs as Golda Meir.
Let\’s face it, all deli menus are the same. Devotees of one deli or another will battle over which spot has the leaner, meaner pastrami or who makes the fluffiest matzah brei.
On March 2, as Shabbat drew near, Rabbi Stephen Cohen, Hillel chaplain at University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), waited for the parents of Ruth and Albert Levy so he could say \”Kaddish\” and pray with them, as he has done for much of the past week.
The call came in last Wednesday from one J.R. Durrer, an Encino resident who works in Boyle Heights. Durrer had been heading west up Seventh Street, where he caught a red light at the corner of South Boyle.
\nThe list of pardons granted by President Clinton on his last day in office included fugitive financier Marc Rich and convicted drug dealer Carlos Vignali — and then there was Al Schwimmer.
For the past 37 summers, the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles (BJE) has sent high school students to Israel through its pioneering L.A. Ulpan program.
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