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June 11, 2015

Award-winning journalist thrashes U.S. mideast policy

The commander-in-chief’s foreign policy errors will have lasting repercussions with American allies, according to Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who visited Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills on June 7.

Rabbi champions role of women in Orthodox Judaism

As a child growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, now the chief rabbi of the Israeli city of Efrat, assumed that every religious Jewish woman knew how to read Gemara.

The ‘heart and soul’ of Silver Lake JCC moves on

Dozens of families packed the courtyard of the Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center (SIJCC) on the morning of June 5, to give the center’s co-executive director, Ruthie Shavit, a celebratory farewell.

Advice to grads: Go forth and create a masterpiece

Having recently attended the college graduation of our youngest child, I could not stop thinking about what I might say if given the opportunity to offer the commencement address.

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