Passover’s causes have always included freedom, peoplehood and monotheism, and Passover’s chocolate layers new concerns onto these age-old themes.
Los Angeles experienced about a 40 percent decline in anti-Semitic incidents in 2013, part of a national downturn, according to a report released April 1 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).\n
Los Angeles-area Iranian-Jewish activists are expressing doubt about a recent report from the Israeli intelligence agency that a group of Jews fleeing Iran during the 1990s were, in fact, kidnapped and then murdered.
George Guzman, 45, grew up in a Catholic home in Corona, Calif., and though he served as an altar boy at his local church, he never felt connected with the religion. In 1995, he turned his back on Catholicism forever.
Employees of Israel’s Foreign Ministry ended their two-week strike with an agreement to increase pay for Israeli diplomats.
On the margins is where some of the most profound holy acts are performed. Standing with those who are in the shadows, on the margins of society, those who have been abandoned, those in our communities who frighten us, who push us to see our own vulnerability, human beings we ignore in the hopes they will disappear — but they don’t.
Memory, aging, death, theater, ghostly visitations and closely held secrets are some of the themes running through “The Last Act of Lilka Kadison,” a play originally produced by the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago and now being presented at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank.
To call someone “the greatest” in any field is to invite argument.
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