Jon Stewart: After Congress, Iran and Israel, Justin Bieber doesn’t seem so bad
Julie Bien
January 16, 2014
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January 16, 2014
Connection more than skin deep
Jewish Journal
January 16, 2014
Jamaican Everlyn Hunter is used to standing out in a synagogue. “I am used to being one of the few blacks in white settings, so I’m not having a new experience being black in a Jewish community necessarily,” said Hunter, a board member at Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), a Reform synagogue on West Pico Boulevard.
African asylum seekers battle fear in South Tel Aviv
Simone Wilson
January 16, 2014
Over the past two weeks, Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers have staged the largest uprising in their eight-year history in Israel.
‘You’ll be free. Welcome!’: Seeking asylum
Simone Wilson
January 16, 2014
Daniel Angosom was just 18 when he escaped a lifetime of compulsory army service in Eritrea, fleeing to Sudan through his country’s northern border. It was in Sudan, while working as a cattle herder, that Angosom — like thousands of African asylum seekers before him — was kidnapped and sold to Bedouin gangs in the Sinai desert.
Rich still getting richer
Jewish Journal
January 16, 2014
The rich get richer. Andrew Jackson may have been the first to register the complaint in those terms.
Somber state of comedy in the mideast
Jewish Journal
January 16, 2014
Humor is a great vehicle, and political humor is actually one of the greatest tools of political critique.
Israel becomes full member of scientific council CERN
Jewish Journal
January 16, 2014
Israel became a full member of the prestigious European nuclear physics lab CERN.
Survivor: Sarah Leisner
Jane Ulman
January 16, 2014
Sarah Leisner — née Kanzer — was digging foxholes in a frozen field in northern Poland on the bitter cold and dark afternoon of Dec. 31, 1944, when she spied several small houses nearby, with smoke rising from the chimneys.
Moving and Shaking: Ariel Sharon and Anne Samson honored
Ryan Torok
January 16, 2014
On Jan. 14, the Los Angeles City Council honored the legacy and contributions of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died Jan. 11 after spending eight years in a coma.
Giving Voice: Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23)
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
January 16, 2014
Someone came to me in tears. “Too much yelling,” he said. “My boyfriend yells at me, my boss yells at me, even my father still yells at me.”
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