When I was 4 years old, my father died. When I would meet someone new, I needed to get this information out almost as soon as I said my name. “Hi, my name is Rachel,” I’d say. “My father died.”
We stood beneath a big tree, me holding her in my arms. Many hours had gone by, and still I had not told her. I did not tell her when I found him, ashy gray, on the bedroom floor the day before, when she called out, “Mommy, why are you screaming?”
The World Alliance for Israel PAC (WAIPAC) held its 2009 Awards and Installation Dinner at The Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard on March 30.
This week’s Torah portion, Emor, sheds light on what it takes to be a leader.
David Yahudian endured embarrassment and fear growing up in Teheran. On walks in the market, his father ordered him to tuck the Magen David necklace inside his shirt and — even worse — called him by an alias, Ali, rather than by his overtly Jewish name. Following an Israel-Iran soccer match at the 1974 Asia Games, he saw fans burning Israeli flags in the parking lot.
Stanley Chais, the longtime Beverly Hills money manager who only five months ago was a major donor to Jewish causes, has seen his life turned upside down by the Bernard Madoff investment scandal and is now accused of knowingly participating in the fraud.
This week, the Board of Rabbis of Southern California will install Rabbi Denise Eger as its president — the first woman and the first gay rabbi to hold the position at the 72-year-old organization.
Thirty years ago this week, philanthropist Habib Elghanian became the first Jew executed by Iran\’s radical Islamic regime after he was falsely charged and convicted of spying for Israel.
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