Suburbanites and city dwellers alike turn to gardening as a way to connect to nature. From backyard plots to community gardens, digging in the dirt ties people to the land.
Why do most American Jews support the president’s and the Democratic Party’s health care plan?
Why does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem so intractable? Why do we hear the same ideas over and over again, even though they never work?
The U.S. and Israeli teams issued a three-sentence statement describing little more than a \”good atmosphere\” hours after President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met privately for 90 minutes.
I’ve covered the ugly side of race relations in Los Angeles for many years. Among my memories are the Watts Riots, the 1992 riot, the public school desegregation
fight and the breakup of the Tom Bradley black-Jewish political coalition.
Throughout this month, the world has heard Israeli government officials and their allies in the United States — particularly among the pro-settler crowd —\ndefending construction in East Jerusalem settlements on the grounds that “everybody knows” these areas will always be part of Israel.
Make no mistake: Today we are witnessing the increasing international isolation of Israel. Natan Sharansky, chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for\nIsrael, stressed to me that the aggressiveness of anti-Israeli — and mostly at the same time anti-Semitic — cheap propaganda had never been so intense in all the past decades.
I do two types of Passover seders — the public ones and a private one.
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