\”Mayor Villaraigosa said many times during his campaign that he would lead a trip to Israel,\” Weiss said in a phone interview. \”He feels a strong connection to Israel.\”
\”I think of Pompeii,\” wrote Anne Brener in a September article for The Jewish Journal. \”New Orleans was so beautiful.\”
Although he became famous for graphic, sensationalist and emotionally raw photographs that simultaneously exaggerate and illuminate human folly, Weegee never forgot his Lower East Side roots as an immigrant Jew.
News reports and sources cite conflicting reasons why Israeli-born Rod Lurie was booted or departed as show-runner of the successful new ABC drama, \”Commander in Chief,\” about the first female president of the United States
On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we ask: Who shall live and who shall die? This year, I will observe Yom Kippur — the holiest day of the Jewish year — with refugees from Darfur in camps in Chad.
Only a few minutes have passed in the Israeli film, \”Ushpizin,\” named after the holy guests invited into the sukkah, and there\’s something wrong with this feature about an ultra-Orthodox Israeli couple.
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