With the Celebrate Israel Festival coming up this Sunday at Rancho Park, I thought it’d be an ideal time to write a love letter expressing my unabashed and unconditional attachment to Israel.
Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg’s new exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center consists of hundreds of multicolored posters inscribed with text and stapled in a rectangular grid onto a single gallery wall.
An Israeli official made unusually detailed allegations on Wednesday of secret Hezbollah guerrilla sites in Lebanese villages, driving home its warning that civilians there risk bearing the brunt of any future war.
Nearly 300 years ago, two Jewish artists inscribed their names on the upper walls of the Gwozdziec Synagogue, located in a bustling trading town in the Polish-Lithuanian countryside.
I’d been to Israel before as a CBS news correspondent covering Saddam Hussein lobbing Scuds into Tel Aviv.
I think of my father who believes a Jew can outwit fate by owning land.
Mammon is not in the Bible, where other words are used, such as hon ve-’osher be-veto, “Wealth and riches are in his house” (of the righteous) (Psalms 112:3), but it is very common in (Aramaic), Targumim and rabbinic literature. It may come from ma’mon “trust, deposit.”
As someone privileged to study with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in the 1960s, and hear Cornel West’s presentation on Heschel…
As we digest news of what could be an \”understanding\” with Iran and what could be a historic nuclear agreement with the \”enemy,\” volatile rhetoric ratchets up on all sides, dividing the Jewish community here at home and the world over, making Israel more and more a divided partisan issue.
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