Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, 45, announced in a letter to congregants last week that he is stepping down as senior rabbi of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Westwood, Los Angeles’s largest Sephardic congregation.
For the life of me, I wish I could be a professional analyst — someone who makes a living telling people what world leaders think, why they think the way they do,
why what they think is not what they say and how we ought to act knowing what they truly have in mind.
Lead donors have already contributed $32 million toward a new campaign to raise $100 million for a community endowment in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles in 2011, according to Federation President Jay Sanderson.
Fresh on the heels of a piece by The New York Times’ ombudsman calling for the removal of the Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner from his current post, the author and journalist spoke to a small group of American Jewish University supporters at a private home in Beverly Hills on Feb. 9.
We recently commemorated the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The somber anniversary was marked by customary calls to combat anti-Semitism\nworldwide. Yet resisting bigotry is not as clear-cut an issue as it might seem at first glance, at a time when the very definition of anti-Semitism is shifting and constantly questioned. Where some see the cancer of Jew hatred, others see the charge of anti-Semitism being used to stifle discussion of issues particularly in relation to Israel and the conflict in the Middle East.
Sometimes you have to go to Orange County to learn about Israel.
The third annual LimmudLA was held over Presidents’ Day weekend in Costa Mesa; it’s a conference run by a volunteer-based grass-roots organization that transforms an otherwise nondescript Hilton into a vibrant campus for Jewish study.
I have read Raphael J. Sonenshein’s article (“Rethinking Obama,” Feb. 12), complete with charts and advice and apparently panic. He says the solution to the impasse in Washington is for Obama to be Obama. I think somebody should inform Mr. Sonenshein that the Obama administration collapsed last week.
