“Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love” – and a prayer for the ages
Rabbi John Rosove
June 16, 2016
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June 16, 2016
IKAR’s progressive Shavuot learning experience
Esther D. Kustanowitz
June 16, 2016
IKAR, a politically liberal Jewish community with a focus on social justice, went progressive in another sense during a June 11 Shavuot Torah study program.
A Shavuot all-nighter at Temple Beth Am
Ryan Torok
June 16, 2016
Charlie Carnow showed up at Temple Beth Am on June 11 with big plans. A paper in his pocket listed all the synagogues he wanted to visit on Shavuot: Beth Am, B’nai David-Judea and LINK Kollel & Shul.
Anti-BDS bill gains city council support
Ryan Torok
June 16, 2016
The Los Angeles City Council demonstrated its support for Israel on June 14 in a unanimous vote (13-0) in favor of a resolution to support California Assemblyman Richard Bloom’s Assembly Bill (AB) 2844. Two council members were absent from the vote.
Study cites decline in area philanthropic giving
Lakshna Mehta
June 16, 2016
A study released on June 3 by UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and funded by the California Community Foundation showed that annual philanthropic giving by Los Angeles residents in 2013 had decreased by a whopping $1 billion from 2006.
Israel reportedly plans to wall off Gaza above and below ground
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2016
Israel’s defense establishment reportedly plans to build a concrete wall that goes tens of yards underground as well as above ground along the Gaza Strip border.
Israel’s culture minister seeks artists who don’t perform in settlements to cut their funding
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2016
Israel’s culture minister is collecting information about which theaters, orchestras and dance troupes perform in Jewish settlements in the West Bank with an eye toward cutting their funding.
Moving and shaking: Dodgers, ICRF Women of Action gala and more
Ryan Torok
June 16, 2016
In front of thousands of baseball fans on a recent evening in Chavez Ravine, Uri Herscher, founding president of the Skirball Cultural Center, threw out a ceremonial pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers squared off against the Colorado Rockies, who ended up winning 6-1.
Israeli defense chief Avigdor Lieberman to meet US counterpart Ashton Carter in Washington
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2016
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s defense minister, will visit the United States to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Ashton Carter, in his first trip abroad since taking the post.
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