Peering from behind oversize green-framed glasses, dressed in rumpled khakis and yellow sneakers, Todd Solondz looked the part of independent cinema’s reigning nerd incendiary as he discussed his new film, “Life During Wartime,” which turns his caustic lens on assimilated American Jewry.
Israel’s Cabinet agreed to send a group of police officers to Haiti to maintain public order.
Cleveland Humanities Magnet High School in Reseda has received a $100,000 donation from Hagai and Jill Gefen, who credit the school for instilling a passion for learning in their three sons.\n
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest breast cancer organization, is heading to Jerusalem with Hadassah and its other Israel Breast Cancer Collaborative partners in October. But the Aug. 5 deadline to register for the mission is fast approaching.
A new public charter high school in Santa Clarita that was to have required Hebrew language instruction as a “key component” of its curriculum will open this fall with 200 students — who will not be required to study Hebrew.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is marking its upcoming 25th anniversary with a wide-ranging reorganization and diversification of its corporate structure, media services, community role and financial base.
It was Erin Silverman’s first Maccabi Games experience. On a sweltering August night in Detroit, she stood side by side with her teammates during the opening ceremonies as they neared the entrance of the Palace of Auburn Hills, the home arena of the NBA’s Pistons.
The idea of a single state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, in which Jews and Arabs live together, has been a third rail in Jewish political discourse since the creation of the State of Israel. It stands in stark contrast to the vision of two contiguous states, Jewish and Arab, based on the principle of partition and embedded in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 of Nov. 29, 1947. It is this latter vision that has anchored Israeli policy for decades, up to and including the present government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That is why the growing calls for a one-state solution by advocates of the Palestinian cause have raised alarm bells, provoking fears of the delegitimization of Israel as a Jewish state.
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