May 4, 2010

Campus Wake-up Call

Jewish Journal May 4, 2010

Consider it a wake-up call: One family, two different events a little more than a year apart, one common antagonist — Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In\nFebruary 2009, our eldest daughter, Talia, felt compelled to write an article in her college newspaper at Northwestern University decrying a student group’s invitation to Norman Finkelstein, an inflammatory anti-Israel speaker who was denied tenure at DePaul University.

Green SoCal Natural Spotlight: Hollywood Reservoir

Heather Wolfson May 4, 2010

Immigration’s History and Motivation

Jonathan Kirsch May 4, 2010

Years ago, when Jeffrey Kaye and I were both contributors to New West magazine, I happened to interview a Chicano activist who observed that Southern California is
to the Mexican people what Israel is to the Jewish people — a homeland to which they enjoy a right of return. It was (and is) an illuminating and intentionally provocative notion, especially if we recall that the Jewish men, women and children who reached Palestine through the human smuggling operation called the Aliyah Bet were, strictly speaking, illegal aliens.

Volume 25, Number 11

Jewish Journal May 4, 2010

J STREET ARRIVES ON MAIN STREET

Avi Davis May 4, 2010

New Documentary ‘Casino Jack’ Considers Abramoff’s Jewish Roots

Tom Tugend May 4, 2010

When Jack Abramoff was a high school football and weightlifting jock and an indifferent young Jew growing up in Beverly Hills, he saw the movie version of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and it changed his life.\n

Beverly Hills’ New Herzl Way

Dikla Kadosh May 4, 2010

For the first time in its history, the City of Beverly Hills has named a street in commemoration of a historic Jewish leader. On May 2, marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl, the man who first envisioned a modern Jewish state, the 300 block of North Clark Drive, in front of Temple Emanuel, was renamed Herzl Way. The renaming was marked with a street celebration that included speeches, musical performances, dancing and the official unveiling of the street’s sign.