Stalemate has become standard operating procedure for Congress in recent years, but this year\’s legislative gridlock could be headed for the record books.
Chaim Mentz is a registered Democrat who has voted Democratic in the past five elections.
Rabbi Simon Dolgin, founding rabbi of Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy and rabbi of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills for 32 years, died in Israel on April 19 at the age of 89.
When Holocaust survivor and Los Angeles real estate developer Jona Goldrich wanted to hire security consultants and guards for his vast network of Southern California apartment buildings, he hired Israelis.
Ask Abraham Israel about hungry people in Israel and he gets exasperated.
Thinking about doing something for Israel but don\’t have time or inclination to go there and volunteer in person?
\”So what were my dying words?\” Hallie Lerman laughs as she recounts the dream in which she was on her deathbed, surrounded by her husband and two adult daughters.
There was good news and bad news when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger\’s office phoned Yoram Gutman, executive director of Israel\’s 56th Independence Day Festival, three weeks ago.
Nearly 60 years ago, out of the ashes of the Holocaust, thousands of Jews came with not much more than the shirts on their backs to a land recognizable only as a collective and distant memory.
Last October, when Israeli air force jets struck a Palestinian terrorist training camp outside Damascus in response to a deadly suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant, there was some anticipation that Washington might rebuke its Jewish ally.
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