UCLA Hillel special events coordinator Guy Kochlani was born in Tel Aviv, but he was never actively involved in supporting Israel — until the day three years ago when a group of Palestinian students interrupted the Yom HaAtzmaut celebration on campus.
Some 65 detectives from the anti-terrorist and other divisions of the Los Angeles Police Department have been assigned to investigate arson attacks on two synagogues and two other houses of worship in Encino.
When Suzanne Weiner-Zada was growing up in Hungary, her father, a wealthy lumber merchant, took out eight insurance policies with Assicurazioni Generali of Italy, one of the world\’s largest insurance companies, which operated extensively in the pre-World War II Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe.
"The Palestinian uprising and subsequent Israeli offensive in the West Bank stirred enormous sympathy for the Palestinians throughout the Arab world…. Over the past year, scores of Egypt\’s top singers have come out with songs about the Palestinian uprising.
It is astonishing that in America, many Jews are not heartened by President Bush\’s "road map" toward Middle East peace, officially made public last week.
While the Bush administration has put an end to the Iraqi terrorist state, its \”road map\” will create a Palestinian Arab terrorist state — a mini-Iraq. This will endanger Israel and undermine America\’s war against terrorism.
OK, let\’s get it over with. Normative Islam today cannot make a peace treaty with a Jewish State in the midst of the Islamic world. It just doesn\’t make it, not in terms of historical precedent, cultural expectations or religious law. Islamists simply trump liberal Muslims on this.
From Los Angeles, Israel is 20 hours away by plane and 10 hours ahead on the clock; it\’s also a world apart.
Elbows out. That was the lesson that began my initiation into the ways of Valley Produce market in Reseda.
The moment you enter Tempo restaurant in Encino on a Thursday night, you realize that it\’s Pini Cohen\’s town, and we just dance in it.
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