It\’s 6:30 p.m. on a Thursday, and the modest storefront at 3531a N. La Brea Ave. is teeming with people. The shelves that were stocked with bottles of Rokeach grape juice, jars of Tzali\’s gefilte fish and cans of California chunk light tuna only a half hour ago, are now nearly empty.
Richard Alan Flom is a rabbi come lately.
When rabbi and author Jan Goldstein was suddenly faced with the news that his 12-year marriage was ending — leaving him with primary custody of his three children — he felt his life was ruined, until he learned to make sense of his pain.
It may have been a silent film, but Paul Wegener made an international noise with "Der Golem." The 1920 German Expressionist classic — screening April 21 at the Skirball Cultural Center — remains a popular incarnation of the Golem.
Miriam Garber refers to \”Rabbis for Rent\” (March 28) as a godsend because \”they do God\’s work without putting a price tag on it, as it should be.\”
Once a year, soon after Purim, my parents lug down the hydraulic press from their attic.
Three years ago, Los Angeles entrepreneur Severyn Ashkenazy gathered in Warsaw, Poland, a small group of American and Polish Jews, all of whom had fled their native land during the Holocaust, and hosted the first Passover seder in that city since 1945.
It\’s customary for Israeli prime ministers to express their wishes for peace on the eve of the major Jewish holidays.
People can hear about the economic crisis that has affected South America in the news.
The bad blood between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and a group of international pro-Palestinian activists continues to grow as more members of the group are injured in Israeli anti-terror operations.
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