If you happened to give money to The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles in recent weeks, you may have received a thank-you call from Chaim Yaakov Abbott.
When Ilana Kaufman, a program officer at the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, arrived at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting with the Jewish chaplain at California’s oldest correctional facility, the chaplain couldn’t seem to find her — even though Kaufman was standing in plain sight.
In her classic reinterpretation of Western history, “The Legacy of Conquest,” Patricia Nelson Limerick writes of an entrepreneurial young man in St. Louis eager to get in on the 1849 Gold Rush.
It was a particularly unglamorous experience that sparked Jonathan Shokrian’s idea for a multimillion-dollar business.
Gene Simmons has made a career out of doing a lot with a little.
Who knew that playing paintball and taking trips to the Santa Monica Pier could be so … Jewish?
A band of young, Jewish musicians filled the halls of Hillel at UCLA with traditional Sephardic music as more than 120 local Sephardic Jews gathered at the center on Nov. 24 to commemorate Jewish refugees from Arab lands and Iran.
France’s parliament is calling for Palestinian statehood recognition.
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