A filmmaker with an eye for Wilshire Boulevard Synagogue’s transformation
Avishay Artsy
January 27, 2016
Los Angeles filmmaker Aaron Wolf never intended to make a documentary about a synagogue.
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January 27, 2016
Brandeis: The first Jewish jurist named to the Supreme Court
Jonathan Kirsch
January 27, 2016
Exactly 100 years have passed since the first Jewish jurist was named to the Supreme Court.
Brandeis and Snowden
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January 27, 2016
It is a time of social change, in which “instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten” us with “mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury.”
Celebrity backed anonymous messaging app alarms parents, politicians
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2016
A new app that allows users to send anonymous text messages is causing alarm among parents, politicians and some teenagers, who say it is being used as a weapon for cyber-bullying.
How evidence became the winning argument
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2016
The first thing most people think of when they hear the name Louis Brandeis is his role as the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.
Milestones issued from the jurist’s pen
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2016
Dubbed the “People’s Lawyer,” Louis Brandeis took on cases free of fees so that he could address issues beyond the case itself that he thought to be in the public’s interest.
‘Freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think’
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2016
The most eloquent defense of freedom of speech that I have ever read was authored by Justice Louis Brandeis.
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller’s 40-year legacy at an evolving UCLA
Jared Sichel
January 27, 2016
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller’s passion, energy and outspokenness haven’t changed much over the past four decades, but his surroundings certainly have.
‘Madoff’: Dreyfuss takes on the man behind the Ponzi scheme
Gerri Miller
January 27, 2016
Of all the shocking scandals that emanated from the 2008 financial market crash, the most notorious is that of Bernie Madoff, the investment adviser who infamously defrauded clients out of billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in American history.
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