At a recent weekday matinee showing of the film “Still Alice,” in which Julianne Moore stars as Alice, a Columbia University linguistics professor who develops early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the theater was crowded, mostly filled with middle-age women.
A security consultant working for the primarily Jewish college fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) — the target of numerous hate crimes across the country, most recently at UC Davis, where members awoke Jan. 31 to find two swastikas spray painted on their house — was among those who addressed more than 800 of the fraternity’s members during a Feb. 6-8 conclave in Santa Barbara.
When a Jewish couple is planning their wedding or anticipating starting a family, they probably aren’t thinking much about rare genetic conditions.
Diplomats from the world’s only Jewish state and a predominately Shiite nation met in Westwood Feb. 3 — and got along perfectly.\n
One week after the Super Bowl, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles was celebrating its own Super Sunday — its major fundraising event of the year where volunteers sit at banquet-style tables and make cold calls to potential donors.
The audience for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on March 3 is shaping up to be largely Republican — and almost completely white.
It just so happens that Simon Wiesenthal Center Associate Dean Abraham Cooper was in Paris for talks with Jewish leaders and government officials about the time the news broke of President Obama’s interview with Matt Yglesias in online Vox magazine.
A sophisticated test found no gunpowder on the hands of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, whose shooting death remains unexplained.\n
With the announcement that Jon Stewart is leaving \’The Daily Show\’, we take a moment to pause and recall his finest moments as the de facto CEO of Jewish humor in America.
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