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November 25, 2014
New nonprofit offers subsidized trips to Israel for couples
Organized, low-cost or even all-expenses-paid group tours to Israel most often target high-school students and college-age youth. Now, two East Coast social entrepreneurs want to bring the experience to a new demographic: recently married couples.
Can Israelis protect themselves from a new wave of low-tech terror?
Just after dawn on Nov. 18, a pair of Palestinian cousins from East Jerusalem went on a killing rampage in a West Jerusalem synagogue.
Ferreting out the truth about a complicated King David
King David is like no other figure in the Hebrew Bible.
Welcoming the stranger
On almost every emerging issue of public policy, our community asks the same question, either in audible or hushed voices: “Is it good for the Jews?”
Zev Yaroslavsky: Rebel politician and distracted golfer
One day in 1975, we walked into a Hungarian restaurant on Fairfax Avenue for dinner and bumped into Barbara (we called her Yael back then) and Zev Yaroslavsky, who had also come to that neighborhood hot spot to have dinner.
Moving and shaking: Zimmer Children’s Museum, NCJWLA thrift shops and more
Local community leaders named to the annual Jewish Daily Forward 50 include Israeli-American Council Chairman Shawn Evenhaim; Rabbi Eliyahu Fink of Pacific Jewish Center in Venice; Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) and Micah Wexler of Wexler’s Deli.
Stages of grief in the search for a permanent peace
Prophecy and predictions of apocalypse are staples of life in Jerusalem.
Hitler watercolor fetches 130,000 euros at Nuremberg auction
A 1914 watercolor by Adolf Hitler fetched 130,000 euros ($161,000) at auction in the German city of Nuremberg on Saturday, the auctioneers said.
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