More than 800 friends, congregants and admirers of Rabbi Harvey J. Fields gathered in the sanctuary of Wilshire Boulevard Temple on the afternoon of Jan. 26 to pay their final respects to the temple’s longtime spiritual leader, scholar and community activist, who died Jan. 23 at 78 following a lengthy illness.\n
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s pending framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace will include a shared capital in Jerusalem and recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, a newspaper columnist reported.
When I asked Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky whether his Judaism has influenced his work as a supervisor, which involves helping some of society’s sickest and poorest people, his answer was as complicated as the man himself.
What does it mean to be a nomadic people? For most of our long history, Jews have been nomads. It’s only recently that we’ve started to settle down. But have we lost something in that process? Has Judaism lost some of its vitality in the absence of movement, which has defined so much of its history?
The key to Gary Shteyngart’s best-selling novels can be found in the title of his second book: “Absurdistan.”
A Paris court fined a pro-Palestinian group for its campaign to boycott the products of the Israeli SodaStream company.\n
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett must apologize for remarks contradicting Benjamin Netanyahu or face the consequences, the Prime Minister’s Office told Israeli news outlets.
French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, the husband of Jewish actress Natalie Portman, told an Israeli newspaper that he is converting to Judaism.
Temple Beth Am congregants Louis and Judith Miller have bequeathed $1 million to the Schechter Institutes’ TALI Education Fund in Israel.
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