Of all the complicated issues running through American Jewish life, one of the most complicated is surely the relationship between Jews and African-Americans, which has frayed in recent years. A key question for both communities as we go forward is: How can we inject more love into the relationship?
On Wednesday morning, Feb. 24, The Los Angeles Times published a full-page ad sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation calling Israel an apartheid state and saying it distracts the public from human rights abuses; the same ad had been rejected by Variety.
With the latest paid anti-Israel screed carried by The Los Angeles Times accusing Israel of being an “Apartheid” state, among its other alleged crimes, and the 24/7 international focus on “Occupied Territories” in The Holy Land, we present some of the other areas around the world that are considered “disputed\” or ”occupied.”
In a floral-print jacket and bright-red lipstick, Dorothy Scott smiled as she thumbed through a plastic binder of photographs, letters and newspaper clippings.
Fresh off a third consecutive win in the Republican presidential primaries, Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t read the Bible before negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles raised more than $1.3 million in pledges Feb. 21 at its annual phonathon, Super Sunday, surpassing last year’s total by about $100,000, according to Federation spokesman Mitch Hamerman.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed on Wednesday a bipartisan resolution – among four bipartisan measures on the agenda – which recognizes the importance of the United States-Israel economic relationship and encourages new areas of cooperation.
San Diego could hardly be more different from the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement.
Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon, founder and executive director of Chabad of the Valley and spiritual leader of Chabad of Encino for more than 40 years, died Feb. 8. He was 66.
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