How Sam Delug Transformed Notorious Menendez House into a Community Hub
Ayala Or-El
November 5, 2024
Once the house was completed, he decided to open it for charity events.
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November 5, 2024
Rabbi Kornsgold Didn’t Want a Pulpit. She Took It.
Ari L. Noonan
November 5, 2024
“I never thought I would be in a pulpit,” Rabbi Gavriella Kornsgold said a year and a half after joining Sinai Temple, one of the community’s largest synagogues.
Did Israeli Women Just Help Restore Deterrence to the Middle East?
Tabby Refael
November 5, 2024
Instead of forced hijabs like the kind I and millions of other females were forced to wear back in Iran, those Israeli women wore special jet fighters’ helmets.
The Kids Are Alright; Grandparents Are Recovering
Judy Gruen
November 5, 2024
We can’t wait to see our out-of-state kids and grandkids again, but I’m still in recovery mode here.
Kosher Comfort Food
Debra L. Eckerling
November 5, 2024
Some weeks, you just need comfort food. This week is one of those.
Freshly Minted: A Fall Delicata Quinoa Salad
Sharon Gomperts and Rachel Emquies Sheff
November 5, 2024
This delicata squash and quinoa salad is our way of embracing the season with a recipe that has all the fall feels.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on ‘The Wolf Hunt,’ Writing and Oct. 7
Danielle Berrin
November 5, 2024
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is an Israeli psychologist and novelist, whose most recent work, “The Wolf Hunt” is about an Israeli family that relocates to Northern California and must reckon with the impact of a series of antisemitic and racial hate crimes.
Tune Out the Noise
Kylie Ora Lobell
November 5, 2024
Unfortunately, we live in an age where the noise is only getting louder and louder
Israeli Film Festival Returns with Powerful Films and Honorees Ynon Kreiz and Shaike Levi
Ayala Or-El
November 5, 2024
Meir Fenigstein is set to open the 36th Israeli Film Festival in Los Angeles, two and a half years after it last took place.
It Must Sound So Cool to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions
Judy Gruen
November 5, 2024
This is the latest salvo against Jewish writers and all things Israeli by the publishing and literary world.
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