What was once a thriving and influential community of 130,000 Jews in the 1940s has been reduced to less than 50 people, and no one in Los Angeles has been able to contact them for some time.
The war in Iraq may not be Israel\’s war, as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon likes to say — but the stakes for Israel could hardly be higher. If the United States wins a convincing victory, it could assure Israel\’s place in a more stable Middle East for years to come. If it does not, Israel could find itself the prime target of emboldened Middle Eastern radicals and face far greater threats to its existence than it does today.
As the Palestinians move forward with the confirmation of a new prime minister, many are looking to the White House to see when President Bush will unveil the \”road map\” toward Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Many new Passover books are written for the diversity curricula in day-care centers and kindergartens. Designed to introduce the holiday to non-Jewish children and produced with non-Jewish illustrators and editors, some of them are problematic for Jewish readers. Three excellent books stand out from the pack.
Passover is my favorite Jewish holiday, and although cooking for Passover requires a lot of preparation, I look forward to it each year. It is a time when our family and close friends join together to share thoughts and exchange ideas as we participate in the seder.
Irwin Goldenberg, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles past president and an active community leader, died on March 20. He was 85.
Talking and fish are two words that never seem to be seen together, until now. On Jan. 28 at a kosher fish store in New Square, N.Y. (an upstate Chasidic enclave), Ecuadorian worker Luis Nivelo was preparing carp to sell for Shabbat, when he heard a voice. Nivelo looked around to see where the sound was coming from, and when he saw that there was no one there, he realized that the piscatorial wonder he was about to chop up and make into gefilte fish — was talking.
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