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May 20, 2022
The Shmita Debate: A Clash of Utopias
The rules of the sabbatical year, shmita, require farmers to desist from working their fields and to open up their fields, and all the produce within them, to anyone.
Grant Gochin: Fighting Genocides, Old and New
Gochin’s mission as a one-man, international human rights advocate began modestly.
The Little Known Dangers of Celiac Disease
According to the Celiac Disease Foundation, the disease causes the body a number of issues, including attacking its own small intestine. This can result in heart disease, cancer and other severe health conditions.
Two Things Lakers Fans Must Do This Month
The HBO series “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” is the closest thing Angelenos have to watching a hometown NBA team in the playoffs this spring.
Providing the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Experience for the Unaffiliated
An initiative of The Community Shul, an Orthodox synagogue in Pico-Robertson, the program offers unaffiliated Jewish families affordable Sunday school lessons and a bar and bat mitzvah ceremony.
Wiesenthal Center Gala, StandWithUs Events and Adat Ari El Rabbi Installation
Tlaib Introduces “Recognizing the Nakba” Resolution in Congress
“The resolution stated that after Israel’s war for independence, the Jewish state “had depopulated more than 400 Palestinian villages and cities” and that “the Nakba refers not only to a historical event but to an ongoing process of Israel’s expropriation of Palestinian land and its dispossession of the Palestinian people that continues to this day through the establishment and expansion of approximately 300 illegal settlements and outposts in the occupied Palestinian West Bank in which approximately 674,000 Israelis reside as of 2020.”