A few weeks ago I welcomed Shabbat in Iquitos, Peru, one of the most isolated cities in the world. Located four degrees south of the Equator and surrounded by nearly impenetrable jungle, Iquitos is accessible only by air or by river — that is, the Amazon.
Imagine a sunny Saturday afternoon. Families walking home from shul along quiet streets cross a well-worn thoroughfare, once the site of a rail system running through the neighborhood like a gentle stream, now transformed into a freeway for high-speed buses. The light changes and the families begin their journey across the street — but not fast enough.
The U.S. State Department has no position on rock-throwing as violence. Tell that to Batsheva and Benny Shoham, whose infant son, Yehuda Chaim, was buried this week, after sustaining a crushing head injury by a terrorist\’s rock.
Aish HaTorah celebrated the opening of the completed Aish HaTorah Community Outreach Center last week at its annual banquet at the Beverly Hilton. Doubled in size from the original Pico-Doheny headquarters, the center comes complete with Jerusalem stone exterior, high-tech audio/visual/telecommunication facilities, and numerous rooms and educational facilities.
On the last evening of Moshe Katsav\’s three-day visit to Los Angeles, it was the turn of the Iranian Jewish community to fete Israel\’s Iranian-born president, and the hosts made the most of it.
As the school year comes to a close, The Jewish Journal profiled eight outstanding graduating seniors from a cross section of high schools in Los Angeles. An examination of their dreams, their hopes, their personal and professional goals — as well as what has shaped them in the past — proves that the Jewish future is alive and well.
We\’re at dinner in New York with a few of my friends. My father has never met any of these guys before, so he\’s free to begin his repertoire at the beginning, tabula rasa. Pop had quite a storied career in the music business, and an evening out with him is like buying an interactive audio tour at the Museum of Contemporary Musical History.
The globalization of trade and communications may soon be joined by a new globalization of anti-Semitism, according to a German scholar who knows the subject well.
David Tabari\’s evening on April 29 started out as just another post-Shabbat night on the town. He and his wife were dining at a Malibu restaurant with 14 other Persian Jewish couples, among them Moize Benjamin.
An Israeli infant who was seriously wounded in a Palestinian stoning attack died from his wounds Monday.
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