Pushing a baby stroller and clutching her toddler’s hand, Hanna Yadler walks through the shiny lobby of her new apartment building and explains how she’s relieved her family found a place to live in Modiin Illit.
I’ve had six different conversations over the past two weeks with the leaders of six different pro-Israel groups, few of whom get along particularly well and none of whom work closely together.
With a touch of awe, we present our annual sampling of outstanding high school seniors.
\”I am continuously impressed with the intellectual quality of the contents of The Jewish Journal. Especially for a free newspaper.\”
Now that you have brought your can-do spirit and sense of optimism to that most intractable of conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians, I thought I’d share a few words of caution.
It is astonishing how world leaders and those in charge of shaping public opinion miss the point about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They totally ignore this man and his state of mind. Not that the criticism directed at him isn’t tough. It is. Following the Iranian leader’s hateful and inciting remarks at the U.N. racism conference in Geneva, where Ahmadinejad called Israel a “racist entity,” there was a firestorm of criticism.
I swear I didn’t plan it this way. I know it fits just a little too well into my recent string of rants about our upside-down values and meaningless priorities, like a too-tidy resolution to a too-scripted reality TV show, but everything I’m about to tell you actually happened to me over the last three weeks, so bear with me just one more time, and I promise I’ll move on from the subject into something even more drastic and depressing next time.
Political analyst and Jewish Journal columnist Raphael Sonenshein interviewed California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass at the Jewish Journal offices on May 29, 2009, as California faces a dire budget crisis. She talks about her background growing up among Los Angeles’ Jewish community, her background in community organizing and her rise in California politics.
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