Poem: Sravana
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
Let the coffee pot and the crows,\nlet the car horns and the upstairs neighbors.
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June 6, 2013
Priest discusses Holocaust documentation efforts
Ryan Torok
June 6, 2013
The Rev. Patrick Desbois, secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism and adviser to the Vatican on the Jewish religion, appeared at Wilshire Boulevard Temple on May 22 to discuss his effort to locate the mass graves of the approximately 1.5 million Jews who were murdered in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944.
Israel bans illegal migrants from sending out money
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
The Knesset passed a measure barring illegal migrants from sending money out of Israel and limiting how much they can take when they leave.
Brain-dead Israeli boy’s kidney donated to Palestinian child
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
The kidney of a 3-year-old Israeli boy was successfully transplanted to a 10-year-old Palestinian child.
Mass Arab grave from 1948 war discovered in Jaffa
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
A mass grave holding the remains of dozens of Arabs killed during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence was unearthed at a Muslim cemetery in Jaffa.
Obituaries
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
Rupert Adler died April 18 at 92. Survived by wife Rona; great-niece Lisa (Victor) Kohn. Mount Sinai
L.A. rabbis urge calm at Kotel
Jonah Lowenfeld
June 6, 2013
Rabbi Laura Geller, a spiritual leader at the Reform Temple Emanuel Beverly Hills, knows firsthand about the restrictions on non-Orthodox Jewish women’s prayer at the Western Wall.
Lies, lies, lies: Parashat Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
My daughter, a soon-to-graduate high school senior, was chosen by a teacher to participate in an event to teach the school a lesson about drunk driving. Before school one day, organizers would set up a scene with a crashed car and police tape. My daughter and the other chosen participants would gather in a room instead of attending first period, making them appear to be missing. It would then be announced that they had been killed in the crash.
Once a shul, now a church that celebrates Judaism
Roberto Loiederman
June 6, 2013
Some months ago, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was “cruising Boyle Heights,” the neighborhood where he grew up and where a large portion of Los Angeles’ Jewish community once lived. Feeling nostalgic, he drove by B’nai Jacob Synagogue — once known as the Fairmont Street Shul — and recalled that some of his parents’ students had celebrated their bar mitzvahs there.
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