Is Israeli society healthy or afflicted?
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is an opportunity to stop and ponder how much we love to forget or forget to love.
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September 27, 2016
In Rosh Hashanah call with rabbis, Obama says Jewish role in civil rights can inspire healing
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
President Barack Obama told rabbis in a pre-High Holidays call that Jews should share their story of working to advance civil rights as a means of inspiring change at a time of racial tensions.
Why did we have to stand so long?
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
Standing. … Just standing. So tired.
Charles Boxenbaum, banking exec, philanthropist, 87
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
Charles (Chuck) Howard Boxenbaum, real estate and banking executive and philanthropist, died Sept. 21 of natural causes. He was 87.
Remembering Chuck Boxenbaum
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
On Sept. 21, a great cedar fell. Charles Howard Boxenbaum was one of the quiet leaders not just of Los Angeles Jewry but of humanity.
Social media and the war against radicalization
Julie Bien
September 27, 2016
One of the central questions during a recent expert panel discussion on the topic of social media and terrorist propaganda was simple: Who determines what content stays online and what is taken down?
Baseball more than a game in ‘going … going … GONE!’
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
In 1958, the Dodgers’ first season in Los Angeles, 8-year-old Ken Levine got a hometown baseball team and his first taste of legendary play-by-play announcer Vin Scully. The rest is history.
These High Holy Days, hoping for a future free from Hyde
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2016
I teach high school sex ed, and the hardest talk I have with my students isn’t about their views on abortion; it’s about how they can’t expect to access abortion unless they live in the “right” place and have the “right” job.
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