Our Jewish community is rightly concerned about Israel on campus. Serious challenges face pro-Israel students around the country today, and much ink has been spilled about the topic.
What a new school year this is turning out to be.
No question that Rosh Hashanah is known as one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar, but it is not known for its comedy.
For Orthodox girls and women, dance lessons aren’t as easy as learning a plié here and a relevé there.
If ever a music series represented one person’s vision, it’s Le Salon de Musiques, founded by French-American pianist Francois Chouchan in 2010.
Although Sukkot is a couple of weeks away, once Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are over, it will be time to get the sukkah up.
For the Los Angeles art scene — its masters, its patrons, its admirers, its dissenters, and even its casual followers — the passing of Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, co-founders of the artists’ workshop and publishing house Gemini G.E.L., marked the end of a pivotal era. Among the L.A. cultural world’s movers and shakers, its advocates and philanthropists whose generosity helped generate the thriving scene that exists today, the Grinsteins were among those at the nucleus.
The people of Israel have seen and attended many funerals, but none like the one I will be attending tomorrow to bid farewell to former Israeli President, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Laureate, Shimon Peres.
Growing up in Canada as a Sephardic Jew, I missed one of the great moments of American Jewish history — the long, turbulent and ultimately successful movement to free Soviet Jewry, which culminated in the release of political prisoner Natan Sharansky on Feb. 11, 1986.
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