Even as Libya is tossed as a political football during United States presidential candidates’ debates, ground-level complications are increasing in Benghazi and beyond despite recent blows to ISIS and a tentative return to oil exports.
On the morning of Aug. 13, Iraqi Kurdish journalist Widad Hussein Ali, 28, from the RojNews Agency, was abducted and later beheaded by Kurdish security forces in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan.
“Brunch and Family Day” at Universal Studios in Hollywood on Oct. 9 raised $220,000 for the Foundation for Camp Bob Waldorf, which supports the Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles (JBBBSLA) nondenominational, residential summer camp for underserved children.
It was an experience I will never forget. It was Chol HaMo’ed Sukkot, the intermediate days when one can go to work. My father went to work, and my mother and I were going to the synagogue for Sukkot services.
When Robert Hertzberg served as California State Assembly speaker from 2000 to 2002, it was natural for him to slip in a Yiddish phrase on the floor of the house from time to time when he felt the mama loshen was more expressive.
On a Sunday evening this past July, attorney and Congregation Bais Naftoli President Andrew Friedman stopped by Pat’s Restaurant in Pico-Robertson, ordered take-out food and made his way over to former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s house. There, Friedman and his wife, Chanie, had dinner with Baca and his wife, Carol Chiang, using paper plates.
More than 250 female rabbis from around the world signed a letter condemning what they called “hate speech” on the part of Donald Trump.
Terrorist attacks in Jerusalem doubled last month compared to August, according to Israel’s security agency, the Shin Bet.
Readers of the luxury magazine Condé Nast Traveler have a thing for Israel.
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