Tribal Podcast: Drew Kugler, communication and leadership coach Leave a Comment / Tribal / Jared Sichel ” target=”_blank”>Subscribe to Tribal</a>.</strong></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/podcasts/tribal/184118/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Tribal Podcast: Drew Kugler, communication and leadership coach</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184127 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-los_angeles tag-aclu tag-la-county-board-of-supervisors tag-la-county-seal tag-mike-antonovich tag-san-gabriel-mission tag-zev-yaroslavsky ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184127" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/184127/" rel="bookmark">Federal judge rules small cross on L.A. County seal is unconstitutional</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/184127/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/los_angeles/" rel="category tag">Los Angeles</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jared Sichel" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/jareds/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jared Sichel </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors violated the First Amendment when it decided in 2014 to reinstate a tiny cross to the county's seal.</p> <p> U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder said in a 55-page ruling that the Board of Supervisors, by depicting a cross on the seal, “Necessarily lends its prestige and approval to a depiction of one faith's sectarian imagery.”</p> <p> The American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) Southern California office sued the Board of Supervisors following its 3-2 decision in 2014 to place a cross on top of the depiction of the San Gabriel Mission on the seal. Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Mike Knabe, both Republicans, argued at the time that having a cross on the seal is historically accurate. They were joind by Mark Ridley-Thomas, a Democrat, and opposed by Zev Yaroslavsky and Gloria Molina, both Democrats.</p> <p> This is just the latest development in a sort of saga that has been ongoing since 2004, when the Board of Supervisors was threatened with a similar lawsuit and voted 3-2 to remove a depiction of the cross floating above the Hollywood Bowl that had been there since 1957.</p> <p> On Thursday, Antonovich released a statement saying that depicting the San Gabriel Mission without its cross “ignores historical and architectural reality,” and said he would support an appeal.</p> <p> “The court failed to see that the Board corrected the inaccurate depiction of the San Gabriel Mission on the seal with an architecturally accurate version that featured a small cross,” Antonovich said. </p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/184127/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Federal judge rules small cross on L.A. County seal is unconstitutional</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184126 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-arts category-hollywood tag-alzheimers-disease tag-hollywood tag-nova tag-pbs ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184126" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/184126/can-alzheimers-be-stopped-nova-documentary-says-were-making-progress/" rel="bookmark">‘Can Alzheimer’s Be Stopped?’ NOVA documentary says we’re making progress</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/184126/can-alzheimers-be-stopped-nova-documentary-says-were-making-progress/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/" rel="category tag">Entertainment</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/hollywood/" rel="category tag">Hollywood</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Gerri Miller" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/gerrim/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Gerri Miller </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> Every 66 seconds, someone in the U.S. develops Alzheimer's disease, the progressive form of dementia that causes memory loss and cognitive decline.</p> <p> By 2050, that rate will double, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. More than five million Americans are living with it now, and with a rapidly aging population of baby boomers, those numbers are skyrocketing.</p> <p> There is no cure, and drugs on the market thus far have had limited effect. But the war against Alzheimer’s is being waged on many fronts, with drugs in development to treat or prevent what is now the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.</p> <p> Those efforts are the subject of “Can Alzheimer’s Be Stopped?” a NOVA documentary airing Apr. 13 on PBS. It presents the latest theories and clinical trials that some day may lead to prevention or cure.</p> <p> Dr. Reisa Sperling, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, appears in the program in conjunction with the study she’s conducting on a drug designed to halt Alzheimer’s before symptoms develop.</p> <p> “We’ve learned that changes in the brain begin a decade, maybe two decades, before the dementia stage, before people have symptoms. Now, with PET (positron emission tomography) scans we have the ability to detect the amyloid plagues that build up in the brain,” Sperling said. “In heart disease, we give statin drugs to lower cholesterol and prevent buildup of plaques in the heart and arteries. We hope to do the same kind of thing with Alzheimer’s.”</p> <p> Her trial involves an anti-amyloid antibody developed by Eli Lilly & Co. ‘We need 1,000 people for this trial, and we’re about halfway enrolled,” she said of the multinational, three-and-a-half year study, in which centers at UCLA, USC and UC Irvine are participating. “If we finish enrollment in 2016 or early 2017, I hope we’ll have results in 2019 or early 2020,” Sperling added, encouraging people 65-85 to sign up to participate at A4study.org. “The only way we’re going to get answers is if people join us in this fight.”</p> <p> As presented in the documentary, other studies in the works target later-stage Alzheimer’s, some by targeting amyloid plaques and others by targeting tau, another protein that builds up inside brain cells and causes what are called “tangles.” Merck will soon test a BACE (enzyme) inhibitor. “I think we should be doing combination trials, more than one medicine, hit it with everything we can, like we do in cancer,” Sperling said. “I want us to try lots of different avenues of treatment but start them at a point that we can still rescue the brain.”</p> <p> She’s hopeful that there will be an effective drug on the market in 10 years or less, but is sad that it will come too late to help her father, who recently died from Alzheimer’s, as did his father before him. “That’s part of the reason I study Alzheimer’s disease. It’s all very real to me,” Sperling said.</p> <p> The fact that one in nine people over 65 will become afflicted makes it real for many families, “and it has the potential to bankrupt our health care system,” Sperling pointed out.</p> <p> “Alzheimer’s disease is non-discriminatory. It affects people of all ethnicities, races and religions. The only way that it affects Jews specifically is that Jews have a long lifespan, and many live to the age of risk” and tend to be more educated and work to an older age in professional jobs, Sperling, who is Jewish, said. “Education protects people initially from showing their symptoms, but once educated people start to decline, they decline more rapidly. They may have a cognitive reserve that hides their Alzheimer’s disease for a long time, but [it] doesn’t protect them from getting the disease.”</p> <p> Although there is a gene that is linked to Alzheimer’s, Sperling doesn’t recommend testing for it because the test “tells you your increased risk but it doesn’t guarantee whether you will or won’t get Alzheimer’s disease. Some people with the gene live to 90, and 40 percent of people who get Alzheimer’s do not have the gene.”</p> <p> Amid all the bad news and daunting statistics surrounding Alzheimer’s disease, Sperling has some good news. “There is some evidence that the rates of dementia are getting lower or at least slowing the rate of increase because of good health care and diet. What a heart-healthy diet and exercise seem to be doing is making people more resistant to developing the Alzheimer’s pathology,” she said. “Living heart-healthy is good for the brain, too.”</p> <p> But it’s not enough, she said. “It will be a combination of healthy lifestyle and biologically active agents that will tip the odds in our favor. I do think we’re making progress. I wish it could go faster. It’s incredibly sad for me that we couldn’t in time to help my dad, but I hope that my kids won’t have to go through what I and my mom did,” Sperling stated. “I hope that people who watch the film get excited and motivated to join the fight.”</p> <hr /> <p> <em>NOVA’s “Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped?” premieres Apr. 13 on PBS.</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/184126/can-alzheimers-be-stopped-nova-documentary-says-were-making-progress/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">‘Can Alzheimer’s Be Stopped?’ NOVA documentary says we’re making progress</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184124 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-worldwide tag-efe-agency tag-ernest-tremmel tag-hubert-zafke tag-nazi tag-poland ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184124" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/184124/" rel="bookmark">93-year-old Auschwitz guard dies a week before trial</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/184124/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/" rel="category tag">Worldwide</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> A former SS guard died a week before he was scheduled to go on trial for his alleged role in the murder of more than 1,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.</p> <p> Ernest Tremmel’s death was announced Thursday, The Jerusalem Post <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Just-days-before-going-on-trial-former-Auschwitz-guard-dies-450582" target="_blank">reported</a>. Tremmel, 93, was scheduled to go on trial in Hanau, Germany, on April 13. He was a member of the Auschwitz SS guard team from November 1942 to June 1943.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.lavoz.com.ar/mundo/un-exguardia-de-auschwitz-muere-una-semana-del-inicio-de-su-juicio" target="_blank">According to </a>EFE Agency, Tremmel is believed to have died two days ago of natural causes.</p> <p> Two other men and one woman in their 90s are accused of being accessories to the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at Auschwitz.</p> <p> Two others — former paramedic Hubert Zafke, 95, and former guard Reinhold Hanning, 94 — are currently on trial.</p> <p> A 92-year-old woman who worked as a radio operator at Auschwitz is also expected to go on trial soon, but no date has been announced yet. She is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 260,000 people.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/184124/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">93-year-old Auschwitz guard dies a week before trial</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184123 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-opinion tag-israel tag-op-ed tag-palestine tag-palestinian-refugees tag-palestinians tag-resettlement tag-unhcr tag-unrwa ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184123" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/184123/" rel="bookmark">The Arab-Israeli conflict: Time to move on</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/184123/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> <em>This article originally appeared on <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4786722,00.html" target="_blank">Ynetnews.com</a></em></p> <p> As a result of the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, roughly 800,000 Jews were expelled from various Arab countries in which they had been living for generations. </p> <p> Consequently, they were forced, like millions of other refugees throughout the 20th century, to resettle elsewhere. Although certainly not an easy task, eventually both the initial refugees and their descendants were able to let go of the past and move on with their lives.</p> <p> Unlike the Jewish refugees from Arab countries, the story of the roughly 500,000 Arab refugees created by Israel’s War of Independence has been vastly different. Rather than being encouraged to resettle elsewhere, they were turned into permanent refugees to be used as a political tool against Israel. For this purpose, a special UN agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), was created in 1950 for the sole intent of maintaining, as opposed to resettling, the original refugees. </p> <p> Even today, nearly seventy years later, UNRWA continues with this policy unabashedly. As they boldly state on their site “We are committed to fostering the human development of Palestine refugees by helping them to acquire knowledge and skills, lead long and healthy lives, achieve decent standards of living and enjoy human rights to the fullest possible extent.” Noticeably absent from this list is any attempt to help the refugees restart their lives in another place.</p> <p> The exact opposite is the case for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an agency that was also established in 1950 and which deals with every other other refugee population in the world. According to its site, “The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide.”</p> <p> In addition, it “strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another state, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.” In other words, the emphasis is on problem resolution, a point that is proudly stated on its site: “Since 1950, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives.” </p> <p> Thus, while UNHCR is constantly trying to lower the number of refugees in the world, UNRWA is actually working in the opposite direction. By an absurd policy that is unique to UNRWA and which states that “the descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children, are also eligible for registration.” UNRWA has succeeded in turning the original half million into five million and counting.</p> <p> In addition to the detrimental policies of UNRWA, which have deliberately kept the refugee issue alive for years, the refugees themselves—both the originals and their descendants—as well as the other Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, have been led to believe that eventually they would receive their own country somewhere west of the Jordan River. By some, they were told the new country would include their former homes in Haifa and Jerusalem, while by others they were promised a more modest state side by side with a tiny Jewish one. Different variations of these assurances have repeatedly been made to them over the years by assorted Arab leaders, western/international leaders and even some Israeli leaders.</p> <p> Hence although the Arabs themselves, refugee or non-refugee, are partly to blame for not letting go of the past and simply moving on with their lives, it’s obvious that their permanent statelessness is also due to the fact that they’ve been a pawn in a much larger game.</p> <p> What’s more, the seemingly endless bloody conflict between Jews and Arabs is the direct result of intentionally keeping this issue alive. This is by far the most tragic aspect of all the false promises and misleading UN policies. Nevertheless and despite the fact that at the moment there appears to be no end in sight to the conflict, something must be done since Israel cannot rule forever over another population with roadblocks and security checks and the Arabs cannot live eternally in a state of limbo.</p> <p> Therefore, in order to finally break this vicious cycle and to allow everyone to move on with their lives, some truths must be faced. For starters, despite all the promises that have been made it’s clear to nearly everyone today that Israel cannot allow for the creation of an Arab state in any shape or size west of the Jordan River since such an entity would pose an existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish state. Thus, despite all the headlines that the two-state solution receives, practically speaking it’s a non-starter. More than twenty-two years of the failed Oslo Process and all the accompanying wars and terrorist attacks, as well as the still unfolding events of the “Arab Spring”, makes this point self-evident.</p> <p> Equally suicidal for Israel is the granting of citizenship to another one or two million Arabs living in Judea and Samaria – many of whom consider Israel an enemy state – as part of any future process of Israel declaring sovereignty over these areas. The demographic and economic problems of such an endeavor, combined with the obvious security problem of absorbing a large hostile population, would surely overwhelm the Jewish state.</p> <p> The only solution therefore, and by far the most humane one, is to rectify the injustice that was done to the Arabs by both the negligent polices of UNRWA and by years of being misled by false promises of statehood west of the Jordan River. Practically speaking, the Arabs need to be financially compensated and helped to resettle elsewhere, as the Jews from Arab countries did seventy years ago and as millions of refugees have done over the course of the last one hundred years as a result of various wars and conflicts. The new host country could be neighboring Jordan or another Arab country or wherever as long as it’s part of an international agreement. Such an agreement would also need to allow Israel to fortify its long-term security by extending Israeli sovereignty up to the natural border of the Jordan River.</p> <p> Although such a suggestion may sound harsh to some people, the truth is it is the only way to resolve the one hundred year conflict and to stop the pointless and never-ending bloodshed between Jews and Arabs. Moreover, the idea of financially compensating the Arabs and helping them to resettle elsewhere as part of an international agreement is the only solution that will both guarantee the continued existence of the world’s only Jewish state as well as enable the Arabs to escape their prison of false promises and to finally start building normal productive lives. For the well-being of both Jews and Arabs, the time has come to embrace the only solution that is truly capable of ending the conflict.</p> <p> <em>Yoel Meltzer, a freelance writer living in Jerusalem, has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from New York University. He can be contacted via <a href="http://yoelmeltzer.com" target="_blank">yoelmeltzer.com</a> .</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/184123/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">The Arab-Israeli conflict: Time to move on</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184122 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-culture tag-andrew-vaughn tag-los-angeles tag-mylacommute tag-zocalo-public-square ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184122" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/184122/" rel="bookmark">#myLAcommute I opened for a little band called Hanson</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/184122/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/" rel="category tag">Culture</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> <strong>ANDREW VAUGHN</strong></p> <p> I’m coming from LAX. I was visiting my girlfriend in Ohio, which was warmer than L.A. We did some holiday shopping together, painted snowflakes for the windows. I think the meanest thing you can do if you live east of the 405 is ask someone to pick you up at the airport. I love the Flyaway Bus.</p> <p> I’m a musician, so I have cases of cables, microphones, and heavy equipment with me. I just came back from tour. We were opening for a little band from the ’90s called Hanson. We played at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood for a couple of nights. It was a great gig.</p> <p> <strong>Century Boulevard to Benedict Street</strong></p> <p> <strong><img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}4.4.16.png" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;" /></strong></p> <p> <em>#myLAcommute is a project of <a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/mylacommute/i-opened-for-a-little-band-called-hanson/" target="_blank">Zócalo Public Square</a>.</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/184122/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">#myLAcommute I opened for a little band called Hanson</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184121 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-culture tag-ama tag-concentration-camps tag-germany tag-jewish tag-judaism tag-reddit ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184121" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/184121/" rel="bookmark">Holocaust survivor, 92, hosts Reddit forum, describes hellish life in Nazi camps</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/184121/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/" rel="category tag">Culture</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> A 92-year-old survivor of seven German concentration camps participated in a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4d67or/iama_holocaust_survivor_who_just_turned_92_i_have/" target="_blank">Reddit Ask Me Anything</a> question-and-answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story.</p> <p> Henry Flescher of Aventura, Florida, participated in the forum with the help of his grandson, the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-07/holocaust-survivor-does-reddit-ama/7302244" target="_blank">Australian Broadcasting Corp.</a> reported Wednesday. He had not heard of the social news-sharing site Reddit before the session earlier this week.</p> <p> “Most people are never happy and complain too much,” Flescher said. “It’s too hot out, it’s too cold out. Life is beautiful, no need to complain so much.”</p> <p> Flescher, a native of Vienna, escaped to France during World War II but was captured in Lyon. He spent the next three years in the Nazi camps, including Auschwitz.</p> <p> He described being transported to a camp by a cattle car packed with prisoners and one bucket to use as a toilet.</p> <p> “The smell was unfathomable,” Flescher said.</p> <p> After enduring six days in the car, 300 prisoners were taken off the train and the others were shipped off to be killed at Auschwitz. Flescher said he was number 298.</p> <p> “I will never forget the number 298,” he said.</p> <p> Flescher went on to work in a shoe factory at the Ohrdruf camp and helped build bridges at the Peiskretscham camp. He also worked at the Blechhamer camp, a place he called “hell” and where he witnessed a friend be hanged for using a telephone wire as a belt to hold his pants up.</p> <p> “Punishments were a daily routine and my front teeth were knocked out here,” he said.</p> <p> Flescher nearly gave up hope when he contracted a bad case of dysentery at the Gross Rosen camp.</p> <p> “I lived for tomorrow. I was always positive,” he said.</p> <p> He was eventually found hiding in a chicken coop by American soldiers in 1945.</p> <p> “I have always believed in God. Before and after. God didn’t kill the people, the Nazis did,” he said.</p> <p> Numerous celebrities and thought leaders, from Jerry Seinfeld to President Barack Obama, have participated in Reddit AMA sessions, which solicit questions from users in the website’s social network community.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/184121/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Holocaust survivor, 92, hosts Reddit forum, describes hellish life in Nazi camps</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184120 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-opinion ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184120" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/184120/" rel="bookmark">Volume 31, Number 5</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/184120/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/commentary/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/184120/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Volume 31, Number 5</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184119 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-books category-culture category-arts tag-arianna-huffington tag-buzz-aldrin tag-carrie-brownstein tag-festival-of-books tag-jonathan-kirsch tag-joyce-carol-oates tag-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books tag-luis-j-rodriguez tag-padma-lakshmi ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184119" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/184119/" rel="bookmark">Festival of Books ready to add another jam-packed chapter</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/184119/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/books/" rel="category tag">Books</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/" rel="category tag">Culture</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/culture/arts/" rel="category tag">Entertainment</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jonathan Kirsch" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/jonathank/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jonathan Kirsch </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> The largest book festival in the United States will reprise on the USC campus this weekend, April 9 and 10, when the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has its 21st edition. Much has changed in the publishing industry since the L.A. Times launched the festival in 1996, and it is significant that the festival, like book publishing itself, has morphed into something far more expansive and diverse. In many ways, the event is now an all-in festival of arts and letters, and its 500-plus presenters include not only authors, but also celebrities, musicians, artists, chefs and much more.</p> <p> <img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}arts-huffington.jpg <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/%7Bfiledir_3%7Darts-huffington.jpg>” style=”width: 100%;” /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Arianna Huffington. Photo courtesy of huffingtonpost.com</em></p> <p> <img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}art-carrie-brownstein.jpg <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/%7Bfiledir_3%7Dart-carrie-brownstein.jpg>” style=”width: 100%;” /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Carrie Brownstein. Photo by JohnnyMrNinja/Wikipedia</em></p> <p> To be sure, the beating heart of the festival remains the program of book-themed talks and interviews that take place in classrooms, lecture halls and auditoriums across the USC campus. Among this year’s featured authors in the L.A. Times Ideas Exchange series, for example, are <strong>Carrie Brownstein</strong>, co-creator of the “Portlandia” television series and author of the best-selling autobiography “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl,” and <strong>Arianna Huffington</strong>, digital media mogul and author of “The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night At a Time,” who will be in conversation with Times veteran columnist <strong>Robin Abcarian</strong>. <strong>Padma Lakshmi</strong>, author of “Love, Loss and What We Ate: A Memoir,” will be interviewed by <strong>Noelle Carter</strong>, and astronaut <strong>Buzz Aldrin</strong> will talk about his latest book, “No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon,” with L.A. Times book editor <strong>Carolyn Kellogg</strong>.</p> <p> <img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}art-padma.jpg <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/%7Bfiledir_3%7Dart-padma.jpg>” style=”width: 100%;” /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Padma Lakshmi. Photo by Tabercil/Wikipedia</em></p> <p> <em style="font-size: 11px;"><img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}arts-buzz2.jpg <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/%7Bfiledir_3%7Darts-buzz2.jpg>” style=”width: 100%;” /></em></p> <p> <span style="font-size:11px;"><em>Buzz Aldrin. Photo by Phil Konstantin/Wikipedia</em></span></p> <p> Another tradition of the Festival of Books is the awards ceremony for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, now in its 36th year, which honors the best books of the previous year in nine categories, ranging from biography and history to graphic novels and comics. The program includes a lifetime achievement award given in the name of my late father, a longtime Times book critic, <strong>Robert Kirsch</strong>, which will be bestowed this year on poet, author and activist <strong>Juan Felipe Herrera</strong>; an award for “first fiction” named after the L.A. Times’ late book editor and Book Prize founder <strong>Art Seidenbaum</strong>; and an Innovator’s Award, which will honor best-selling author <strong>James Patterson</strong> for his philanthropic efforts “to make books and reading a national priority.” The awards ceremony takes place on the evening of April 9 in Bovard Auditorium, and it’s always the single-best opportunity to spot a constellation of authors and other movers and shakers in the publishing industry all in one place.</p> <p> <img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}art-luis-poet.jpg <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/%7Bfiledir_3%7Dart-luis-poet.jpg>” style=”width: 100%;” /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Luis J. Rodriguez. Photo courtesy of luisjrodriguez.com</em></p> <p> The good vibe at the festival, which got its start as a rare opportunity for book lovers to meet one another en masse, is now something more than the sum of its parts. If you are a purist, of course, you can stop by the Poetry Stage to hear readings by such celebrated poets as <strong>Jorie Graham</strong>, <strong>Andrei Codrescu</strong>, Los Angeles Poet Laureate <strong>Luis J. Rodriguez</strong> and California Poet Laureate <strong>Dana Gioia</strong>. Or you can marvel at the erudition on display when <strong>Joyce Carol Oates</strong> is interviewed by KCRW broadcaster <strong>Michael Silverblatt</strong>. </p> <p> <img decoding="async" alt="" src="{filedir_3}arts-joycecaroloates.jpg <view-source:http://localhost/exporter/%7Bfiledir_3%7Darts-joycecaroloates.jpg>” style=”width: 100%;” /><em style="font-size: 11px;">Joyce Carol Oates. Photo by Larry D. Moore/Wikipedia</em></p> <p> But you can also see and sample cooking demonstrations, listen to travel talks, watch local artists at work in the Artists’ Row gallery space or at the five street art installations around the campus, take the kids to children’s and young-adult stages for nonstop performances, or simply sit back and enjoy the sounds. The festivities begin on the morning of April 9 with the eye-dazzling and heart-pumping spectacle of the <strong>Trojan Marching Band</strong>, and the musical-stage performances range from the <strong>Saved by Grace Gospel Choir</strong> to an alt-country group called <strong>I See Hawks in L.A.</strong></p> <p> The Festival of Books, in fact, reaches beyond the USC campus. Among the attractions featured in the Festival After Dark program is the <strong>Book Drop Bash</strong>, a Saturday night gala hosted by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Public Library. A library can be even more magical by night, especially when good books are enhanced with music, food and drink, as well the authors and presenters who participated in the book prize ceremonies earlier in the evening. And the price of admission is the donation of a book. </p> <p> So many sights, so little time! Truth be told, experienced festival-goers have already strategized the attractions that they want to attend, an effort that requires luck, timing and a good pair of legs, if only because there are so many events at so many venues over the hectic two days of programming. Tickets for some of the events have already sold out, but there is always something to see and do at FOB. For the complete schedule of the Festival of Books, as well as prices, information and tickets, visit <a href="http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks <view-source:http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks>” target=”_blank”>events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks</a>. </p> <p> <em>Jonathan Kirsch, author and publishing attorney, is the book editor of the Jewish Journal.</em></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/184119/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Festival of Books ready to add another jam-packed chapter</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-184105 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-election2016 category-united-states tag-bernie-sanders tag-election-2016 tag-israel tag-jewish-insider tag-war-with-gaza ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-184105" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/184105/" rel="bookmark">Sanders draws fire in Israel</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/184105/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/united-states/election2016/" rel="category tag">Election 2016</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/united-states/" rel="category tag">United States</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <div> <p> Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is fueling anti-Israel bias to those seeking to delegitimize Israel by inflating the overall death toll of Palestinian civilians and combatants during the 2014 war in Gaza, Knesset Member Michael Oren said on Thursday.</p> <p> “First of all, he should get his facts right. Secondly, he owes Israel an apology,” the freshman lawmaker (Kulanu) told <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-oren-sanders-should-apologize-for-gaza-blood-libel/"><strong>Times of Israel</strong></a>. “He accused us of a blood libel. He accused us of bombing hospitals. He accused us of killing 10,000 Palestinian civilians. Don’t you think that merits an apology?”</p> <p> In an interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News last week, Sanders suggested Israel killed “over 10,000″ Palestinian civilians in Gaza. “Anybody help me out here, because I don’t remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza. Does that sound right?” he said.</p> <p> Sanders also called Israel’s military actions “disproportionate” and “indiscriminate.”</p> <p> ”I think most international observers would say that the attacks against Gaza were indiscriminate and that a lot of innocent people were killed who should not have been killed,” he asserted. “My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled. Hospitals, I think, were bombed. So yeah, I do believe and I don’t think I’m alone in believing that Israel’s force was more indiscriminate than it should have been.”</p> <p> According to Oren, Sanders is giving service to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. “Not only did he multiply by five the amount of casualties [in the 2014 Gaza war] and failed to distinguish between the Hamas fighters we eliminated and the civilians we inadvertently and regrettably killed. He said we bombed hospitals. Hamas is hiding beneath the hospital; we didn’t bomb it,” the former Israeli Ambassador told the Israeli publication.</p> <p> On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League <a href="http://jewishinsider.com/7352/adl-calls-on-sanders-to-retract-gaza-casualty-claims/"><strong>called</strong></a> on Sanders to correct his misstatements.</p> <p> Professor Alan Abbey, director of internet and media at Shalom Hartman Institute, who covered Sanders in the 1980′s at the for the Burlington Free Press, expressed deep disappointment that the Vermont Senator targeted Israel in such a manner.</p> <p> “As someone who has written about Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness in a way that I believe reflected a nuanced understanding of the interplay of forces that have shaped him, I am extremely disappointed in his indiscriminate rhetoric and scattershot misinformation regarding Israel’s actions in the 2014 Gaza War,” Abbey told<em> Jewish Insider</em>. “By repeating twice the wildly inaccurate claim that ‘over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza,’ Bernie poured gasoline on the ashes of the delegitimized claims made by Israel-haters for the last two years. Bernie’s unselective targeting of Israel is as imprecise as he claimed Israel was in 2014.</p> <p> “Bernie Sanders must walk back his erroneous accusations and promise to learn more about the situation and its complexities before firing off similar claims in the future,” said Abbey.</p> <p> Israeli cabinet minister Ze’ev Elkin was milder in his response, describing Sanders’ account of the casualty claims “weird” and “loony.”</p> <p> “Anyone who knows a little about what happened in Operation Protective Edge understands that this was a weird and loony statement,” the minister told Israel radio on Thursday. “What is ultimately important is what they (candidates) do and not what they say in election campaigns. 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