The hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen has agreed to a two-year ban from supervising funds that manage outside money, to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he failed to supervise a former portfolio manager convicted of insider trading.
Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said.
Islamic State said on Friday its members had carried out an attack on Israeli tourists in Cairo in response to a call by the group\’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to target Jews \”everywhere.\”
“Celebration of Life: Reflections 2015,” a Los Angeles Jewish Home gala on Nov. 8, honored Molly Forrest, the Home’s CEO and president, for her 20 years of leadership and service.
Just wanted to say thanks for the “defense” and boost of optimism in Rob Eshman’s recent column (“In Defense of Optimism,” Jan. 1), and for all the work he does through the Jewish Journal — for readers, for the Jewish community, and this year, for my family, by posting my piece for Father’s Day.
Pianist Emanuel Ax marks his 40th anniversary performing with the L.A. Philharmonic with this return for the introspective and compelling concerto-in-one-movement by Franck, “Symphonic Variations.”
Having called Los Angeles home for my entire life, I figured I had seen it all from the Jewish community over my thirty-five years: I davenned at its synagogues, married a girl I first met in youth group, regularly spend my lunchtime at the best delis in the city, and have even laid teffilin in front of my apartment in the Fairfax district.
Israeli SWAT officers stormed a mosque in northern Israel and killed a man they identified as the Arab-Israeli who killed three people in Tel Aviv last week, Israeli media reported.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.