Last week in the New York Review of Books, Peter Beinart indicted mainstream American Jewish organizations by asserting that “for several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism’s door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism at the door.”
Determining Friendship\nUnfortunately, not all Muslim leaders are true friends of the Muslim people. Nazir Khaja is a true friend of his people and of us (“Manhattan Madness and Muslims,” May 28). As someone who loves the Muslim people, I greatly appreciate what Nazir is doing.
Summer is coming, and here are a few good reads for long flights or lounging by the pool — some newly published, some coming soon, some recently reviewed in the book columns in the Jewish Journal and on jewishjournal.com.
Once again, this season’s lineup defies the popular assumption that films released during the summer have to be either big blockbusters or vapid youth-oriented fare designed to appeal to less discriminating, mainstream audiences. At least two upcoming films promise to provoke discussion — one deals with homosexuality in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox community; the other paints a heroic picture of a loyal Nazi party member called “the Oskar Schindler of China” by The New York Times.
An hour before the start of Jeff Garlin’s recent stand-up show at Upright Citizens Brigade in Hollywood, a huge line had formed around the block on Franklin Avenue, obstructing the entrances to adjacent cafes and a clothing store.\n
Aharon Leshno Yaar tells UN Rights Council that Turkish-based IHH raises funds and finances terror for Hamas around the world
In the past three years, Israel has come up with a trio of films about the Lebanon war that, for unflinching honesty, are unmatched by Hollywood or, I believe, any other country.
First came “Beaufort,” then “Waltz With Bashir,” both landing among the five Oscar finalists for best foreign-language film in successive years.
The Los Angeles community mobilized to show support of Israel in the wake of the flotilla crisis. A pro-Israel rally took place beginning at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1, outside the Turkish consulate on Wilshire Boulevard.
Martin Sherman is a hard man to figure out. Is he a street-smart Zionist or a liberal academic? Sherman, who is just finishing his stint as a Schusterman Visiting Scholar of Israel Studies at University of Southern California and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), looks like your classic scholar. He has a doctoral degree in political science and international relations from Tel Aviv University, where he has been teaching since the late 1980s.
The bride, tall and beautiful, is half white, half African American. The groom, no less attractive than his new wife, is half Russian, half Iranian. His father is half Jewish, half Baha’i. There is a sister who is half Baha’i, half Muslim, one who’s all Jewish and one who’s undecided. There’s a brother who is half Baha’i, half Christian, a niece who thought she was Muslim, discovered she’s in fact Jewish and finally settled on Catholic. There are two nieces and a nephew who are one quarter Jewish Iranian, one quarter Baha’i Iranian, and two quarters Chinese of undetermined religious affiliation. And this is only the groom’s side of the family — 20 people, to be exact, among some 150 guests milling around at the reception on a gorgeous afternoon in a beautiful ranch just outside of Los Angeles.
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