Why Jews fought — and should keep fighting — for the rights of domestic workers
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2013
Jews have, once again, helped working men and women in this country win a great labor rights victory.
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October 3, 2013
Gina Nahai: On being Persian
Gina Nahai
October 3, 2013
Why do they call themselves Persian? The first time someone asked me this was during a Harvest Day at my kids’ school. I had just been introduced to a blond, green-eyed American Jewish woman. I didn’t understand her question.
Los Angeles history: Jewish dreamers, schemers of the San Fernando Valley
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2013
Have you ever been lost on Ventura Boulevard, a street that’s long on history? One night, I found myself west of the 405 Freeway, searching for the street on which to turn left to pick up my teenage son and realized I’d totally lost my bearings.
The end of culture?: Foundation for Jewish Culture closing down
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2013
The recent news that the New York-based Foundation for Jewish Culture will go out of business next year after more than a half century of activity sends an ominous message to all those concerned with the vitality of Jewish culture.
Jews remain main target of religious hate crimes in 2012 in L.A.
Ryan Torok
October 3, 2013
Jews continue to be the single most targeted group of religiously motivated hate crimes in Los Angeles County according to the 2012 Hate Crime Report published by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations that was released on Oct. 2.
This week in power: Government shutdown, Jews poll, UN reaction, Iran spy
Danny Groner
October 3, 2013
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talked the talk
Michael Berenbaum
October 3, 2013
As one who has studied a folio of Talmud each day for the last 14 months, I am tempted to present President Hassan Rouhani’s interview with CNN as a text to be studied, dissected point by point, sentence by sentence in talmudic fashion.
BREAKING: Gunfire forces brief lockdown at U.S. Capitol
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2013
The U.S. Capitol was locked down briefly on Thursday after gunshots were fired outside the building following a car chase across central Washington and a number of people including a law enforcement officer were hurt, officials said.
Can liberal Judaism survive?
Rabbi David Wolpe
October 3, 2013
As an old Yiddish saying has it, Jews are like other people, only more so. The Pew study of Judaism in America reminds us of this truth. Although startling to some, the rise of orthodoxy is to be expected. In a world in which traditionalism/fundamentalism is growing in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and other faiths, Jews do what others do and turn forcefully to more orthodox modes of faith and worship. This is not a phenomenon peculiar to Jews, but a worldwide wave.
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