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March 28, 2008
Delshad reflects on his year as B.H. Mayor
Mayor Jimmy Delshad was surrounded by nearly two dozen local Iranian Jews at his Beverly Hills City Hall office on March 10. Holdings hands, they recited a prayer of thanksgiving and he personally thanked his supporters in the community for backing his efforts as mayor.
Behind the stereotypes, Israelis are not one ‘people’
No politicians. No famous people.
Those were some of the rules that Donna Rosenthal set up for herself when writing, \”The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land\” (Free Press), first published in 2003. A special edition — updated with the most current events — is being released April 1 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Israel\’s founding
Letter from Paris: Israel and France are back to normal
Israeli President Shimon Peres has seen it all.
Almost any man would have been confused by the series of unbelievable mishaps that erupted out of nowhere during his visit in France, from anti-Israeli rallies and boycotts to a sabotage of his speech by right-wing Jews, to the collapse of an installation just inches over his head at the mid-March prestigious annual book fair where Israel was the star guest.
Fear over intermarriage is overblown
Purim is a time to dull our senses with drink and cloak our identity by dressing in costume. We do so in order to confront a troubling part of our history and the threats to Jewish life and continuity in the Diaspora.
Appropriate response to killings rests in Torah
The pain felt by the family and near environment of any murder victim is deep and traumatic. The murder of adolescents in an educational institution is horrifying. But a murder that takes place within the walls of the house of study, the yeshiva, amplifies and extends the grief and suffering beyond the families that lost their dear ones and beyond the victims\’ close surroundings.
City Voice: The perfect combination
An evening at Shomrei Torah Synagogue got me thinking about Barack Obama and how much the San Fernando Valley has changed since I first roamed there in 1970.
It\’s an odd combination of thoughts, I know. Or, perhaps not. The more I thought about it, the combination made perfect sense to me.
Just embrace the madness
There\’s a time in every relationship when its strength gets tested. For God and Abraham, it was that whole sacrifice your son bit. For Esther and Ahasuerus, it
was the \”please don\’t kill me and everyone I know\” thing. For Mr. and Mrs. Zebra, it was are you coming on this cruise with me or do you want to stand in the rain all day and argue about it? For many couples, the not-so-shining moment is the NCAA basketball tournament
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