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March 18, 2009

L.A. Receives Emergency Grant, Sinai Head Appointed, Composer Wins Soup Contest

Jewish Journal March 18, 2009

Five communities, including Los Angeles, will split an $11 million emergency grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation for day school and Jewish camp tuition assistance over the next two years. The San Francisco-based foundation will begin paying money out immediately to Jewish federations in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston and its neighboring North Shore, and the greater Washington, D.C., area.

Venezuela Jews Rebuild After Synagogue Attack

Jewish Journal March 18, 2009

CARACAS (JTA) — The quiet on a residential street in this eastern Venezuelan city is shattered by construction crews as workers perched on a scaffolding place panels of marble on the external wall of a two-story synagogue.

Tel Aviv Grill Comes to Encino

Dikla Kadosh March 18, 2009

Itzik Hagadol knows how to “open up a table,” as they say in Israel.

The restaurateur, whose real name is Itzik Luzon, has a reputation in Tel Aviv for lavishing his guests in Middle Eastern style — serving up an abundance of food that includes heaping platefuls of salads. After 14 years of booming business in Yaffo, Luzon has brought his popular restaurant, Shipudei Itzik Hagadol (Big Itzik’s Skewers), to the Encino Commons with help from his son, Amos, and their business partner Michael Fainman. Itzik Hagadol Grill opened its doors to a parking lot thronged with people on March 3.

Job Opening

Rob Eshman March 18, 2009

If you really want to see tumbleweeds blow through an auditorium, ask an audience of L.A. Jews who their leader is.

LETTERS: Torah Battle, Mormon Official, Ethics

Jewish Journal March 18, 2009

Ethics Certificate\n\nI heartily agree with David Suissa and his reservations about the new certificate indicating that Jewish businesses uphold labor laws (“Laboring for Ethics,” March 6). If the Rubashkin scandal [Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse] is what prompted the certification idea, it is hardly the most noxious scandal in the Jewish community.

Music Man

David Suissa March 18, 2009

If you want to upset a Jewish musician who makes Jewish music, just call him a Jewish musician who makes Jewish music. Like it or not, the term “Jewish music” is not flattering to Jewish musicians. It’s got connotations of old-time schmaltz, of Zionist choirs singing “Heveinu Shalom Aleichem,” of fringe music written for a very specific — and very small — audience.

Our New Marranos

Judea Pearl March 18, 2009

Three years ago, in a column in this journal, I argued for the formula, “Anti-Zionism = Racism,” instead of the standard claim that anti-Zionism is a cover for anti-Semitism. My aim was to empower pro-Israel students with a more potent intellectual weapon to fight back the rising anti-Israel campaign on college campuses.

Ethics Plan Would Raise Sanctity of Business

Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin March 18, 2009

An observant Jew was once brought before the judge on counts of tax fraud. Seeing the kippah-wearing Jew before him, the judge innocently asked, “Mr. Schwartz, you are clearly a God-fearing man. How do you explain your immoral behavior?”

The Real Madoff Scandal: Charitable Hoarding

Jewish Journal March 18, 2009

Of all the shocks of the Bernie Madoff heist, perhaps none was more stunning than the list of victims. Among them were several Jewish foundations and many of our community’s most prominent nonprofits. The losses were staggering, and in some cases crippling.

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