A hilarious coming-of-age musical about discovering that “cool” is sometimes where we least expect it, “13” — Panic! Productions’ hit production of Jason Robert Brown’s musical — follows Evan Goldman as he moves from New York City to a small Indiana town.
Todd Presner says that UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies invited Cornel West to speak at this week’s Heschel conference because of West’s “25 years of scholarly engagement with Heschel (“Why Did We Invite Cornel West?” May 1).
For most people, the day started with a cosmic jolt.
But when a 3.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Los Angeles area shortly after 4 a.m. on May 3, around 20 members of the Muslim-Jewish fellowship called NewGround were already awake and preparing for a busy day — a marathon of prayer that would start at a beach and end on a rooftop.
The morning began with the most unassuming of questions.\n\n“Do you know what day it is?” I asked my roommate Michael, still lying half-asleep in his bed.
Last Sunday night in Tel Aviv, where I live, I had a 40-minute glimpse into what it’s like to feel like an outsider, like a rejected member of society.
In the traditionally conservative Palestinian society of the densely populated Gaza Strip, women do not have many opportunities for entrepreneurship. Women usually marry young and raise large families.
Ten billion people. That is the number of mouths that farmers will have to feed in another two decades. In order to do this food production needs to increase by 70%.
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