There\’s a new mitzvah in the Jewish world, and its name is Africa. It is hard not to notice the increased money and energy Jews and Jewish organizations are putting into the continent.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been battling for more than three years to construct a $200 million center in Israel, is facing another emotional building controversy, this one in its own backyard.\n
Stanley P. Gold wastes few words describing the status of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. \”It is largely irrelevant,\” he said last week. What makes Gold\’s remark so stark is that on Jan. 1, the sharp-tongued and fast-paced Gold, a 65-year-old self-described \”monomaniac on a mission,\” will take over lay leadership at The Federation as chairman of the board.
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