Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a memorial for victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda upon his arrival in the African nation.
I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid years, born to parents who had survived the Nazis.
Who gets to use a public restroom has become a big news story this year.
The fact that David Ryu, the first Korean American elected to the Los Angeles City Council, serves under Mayor Eric Garcetti, the first Jew elected mayor, seems to be no coincidence.
“Judgment at Nuremberg,” one of Hollywood’s seminal films, will mark the 55th anniversary of its 1961 release with a screening on July 12 at 7 p.m. at Laemmle’s Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Dean Kremer, a lean, 6-foot-3 20-year-old with a low-90s fastball and a devastating curveball — who happens to have already cemented his place in history as the first Israeli citizen to be drafted in Major League Baseball after being taken by the San Diego Padres last year.
Yamashiro, the famous Hollywood restaurant with a Japanese-style building and name, served its last meal by its longtime owners recently, before changing hands and reopening under a new operator.
Later this summer, David Siegel will return home to Israel after five years serving as Israeli consul general for the southwestern United States from his base in Los Angeles. So, what has he been doing during that time?
Joseph Sokol is used to reactions of disbelief when he sits down with technology industry bigwigs to pitch his startup, OlehPay, a payments website that enables users to inexpensively transfer dollars to Israeli bank accounts in the form of shekels.
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