The episode of the Akedah, or the binding of Isaac, presents so many difficult questions. One of the most basic is: For whom is this human and Divine drama staged?
In my now perhaps exceedingly long life as a single woman, I\’ve lived in both New York and Los Angeles.
Three thousand Jews from around the world will gather in Los Angeles this week for the 75th General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities.
Starving Students, the nation\’s leading local mover, volunteered its movers and trucks for the SOVA Food Pantry\’s High Holiday Food Drive. Six Starving Students movers and two trucks helped pick up and deliver donated groceries to the SOVA warehouse where they would be distributed to families in need. The movers traveled throughout Los Angeles County and the San Fernando Valley and loaded more than 29 pallets of groceries into their trucks collected from synagogues.
Main discussions focused on changing conditions in the Israeli immigration picture and Israel\’s economy, as well as issues facing overseas Jewish communities.
Political scientist and Jewish Journal columnist Raphael Sonnenshein of Cal State Fullerton termed the national election results \”the most colossal wave of change going back to 1980.\”
This will be the 17th year that a select group of Jewish collegians, as members of the Do the Write Thing team, will have its own prestigious place in the General Assembly.
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