What the Klinghoffers taught me — and the world
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
I first met Leon Klinghoffer’s daughters in 2004, shortly after my father and stepmother were murdered in a robbery.
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October 20, 2015
Garcetti grapples with L.A.’s provincial past
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
Modern Los Angeles had a difficult birth.
UNESCO head ‘deplores’ proposal declaring Western Wall a Muslim site
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
The head of the United Nations cultural agency said she “deplores” a proposal under discussion by the agency’s executive board that would declare the Western Wall a Muslim holy site.
Protesters in Sweden chant ‘slaughter the Jews’
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
Hundreds of protesters in the Swedish city of Malmo were filmed chanting in Arabic about slaughtering Jews and stabbing soldiers.
James Franco’s bar mitzvah spectacular
Esther D. Kustanowitz
October 20, 2015
Rabbi Brian Zachary Mayer has helped plenty of students prepare for bar or bat mitzvah ceremonies, and, in some ways, the one he officiated on Oct. 3 was no different. It involved months of serious study, a special bar mitzvah speech and even a mitzvah project.
Rand Paul: Improving lives of Palestinians will reduce violence
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
The cards are in the hands of Israel to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by improving the daily lives of the Palestinians, Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul said on Monday.
13-year-old stabbing victim regains consciousness, breathing on his own
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
A 13-year-old boy who was critically injured in a stabbing by two Palestinian teens is conscious and breathing on his own a week after the attack.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon comes to Israel in bid to calm tensions
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come to Israel in an effort to tamp down the current wave of violence.
Israeli driver killed in West Bank accident after car pelted by rocks
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
A Jewish-Israeli man who exited his car near Hebron after Palestinians throwing rocks damaged the vehicle was hit by a truck and killed.
Israeli soldier, civilian injured in West Bank car-ramming attack
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2015
Two Israelis, a soldier and a civilian, were injured in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank.
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