Israeli air strikes hit two concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israel. The Israeli military confirmed direct hits on the targeted launchers the morning of Oct. 28, several hours after two rockets were fired at Ashkelon and surrounding communities.
Jewish humor and Jewish theology share something in common. I can think of any number of jokes whose punch lines say something profound about God (“Work with me here — buy a ticket!”). And we need only consult the Torah to discover how the matriarch Sarah responded when God revealed that she would bear a child in advanced old age: “Sarah laughed …” (Genesis 18:12).
Last February, nearly two years into the civil war still tearing across Syria, a group of seven wounded Syrians dragged themselves to the Israeli border, where they were picked up by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and rushed to the nearest hospital.
Along the Israeli highway that snakes up through the Golan Heights toward Syria sits the Kiryat Shmona central bus station, a herding ground and grazing spot for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on their way to the Syrian and Lebanese borders.
Sam Abdulaziz died Oct. 11 at 74. Survived by wife Joyce; daughter Debbie (Kyle) Duns; son Mike (Michele); 4 grandchildren; sister Blanche Murad. Mount Sinai
The Los Angeles Jewish community lost one of its most prominent advocates for education and tolerance, Dr. Sam Goetz z”l, who died at the age of 85 last week. Sam was a Holocaust survivor who devoted his boundless intelligence and energies to teaching about his own life experience as a means of inculcating awareness of the dangers of intolerance and hatred in his own day.\n
The legendary Sunset Strip, traversing nearly 100 years of Los Angeles history, winds it way past three famous, even infamous, enterprises along its 1.7-mile length: the gangland offices of Mickey Cohen; the hotel of Alla Nazimova, a bisexual Jewish silent film star; and the nightclub of Alice Schiller, a Jewish woman whom The New York Times called in her obituary the “The Impresaria of Striptease.”
Teva Pharmaceuticals said its president and CEO, Jeremy Levin, has stepped down.
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