Don’t worry, be happy
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2012
Each year on Yom Kippur, we read lines from this week’s Torah portion that teach us about appropriate observance during this High Holy Day.
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May 2, 2012
My Single Peeps: Natania L.
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2012
If I wrote Natania’s column gender-neutral, there would be very few tip-offs that I was writing about a woman. To be fair, if someone wrote about me the same way, there’d probably be very few tip-offs that I’m a man.
Opinion: Korbanot, or why Jews should act more like Mormons
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2012
Few would describe the book of Leviticus as a page-turner. Its often-turgid descriptions of sacrifices (or korbanot) can be seen nowadays as perfectly calculated to let shul-goers catch up on their sleep. When we as a people lost korbanot, however, we lost something deeply profound — and our relationship with God demands that somehow we recover it.
Israeli activist brings educational ideals, message of hope to L.A.
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
May 2, 2012
Chaim Peri understands that many of the at-risk children who land in the Yemin Orde Youth Village he founded 30 years ago in northern Israel probably hate God.
Opinion: When killers target kids
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2012
On July 22, 2011, 33-year-old Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya in Norway. On March 19, 2012, 23-year-old Mohammed Merah shot and killed a teacher and three young children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Opinion: Fishing in Africa
Susan Freudenheim
May 2, 2012
To meet Ikal Angelei in a Wilshire Boulevard coffee shop, as I did this week, is to traverse oceans and travel through deserts. Angelei is an activist from Kenya specializing in the geopolitics of water, a 32-year-old powerhouse who just won a highly prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, said to be the “the largest award in the world for grassroots environmentalists.”
Lust, spectacle on a biblical scale: Why we love silent films
Tom Tugend
May 2, 2012
Sure, you’ve heard of old movies, but one highlight of this year’s Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival reaches back 88 years, reviving the silent film “The Moon of Israel.”
Judge won’t drop charges against Baltimore brothers
Jewish Journal
May 2, 2012
A Baltimore judge will not drop the charges against two Jewish brothers accused of beating a black teenager.
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