Moni Fanan, the former chairman of the board for the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, was found dead in his home on Monday after he committed suicide.
After several failed resuscitation attempts the rescue services at the scene pronounced him dead.
Fanan became a team symbol and was known as one of the groups’ most fervent fans.
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The first two intifadas were confined to Israel and the territories it administers. But the Third Intifada has gone global.
Over the course of a 72-hour frenzy in mid-January, the Trump administration announced four different administrative bodies tasked with various responsibilities for the transition and reconstruction of post-war Gaza.
My family learned, the hard way, that when a theocratic regime consolidates power, it does not stop with one group.
I can’t think of a better way to honor his legacy than to remember how he tried to bring our country together through the shared ideals expressed at our founding.
The Jew is a mirror that reflects the state of the world – at times its openness, kindness and generosity of spirit, at other times its spasms of ferocious barbarism.
Black January did not save the Soviet Union. It shattered it. Rather than crushing Azerbaijan’s will, the massacre unified it.
Long-simmering antisemitism on the American Right has erupted into plain view.
Why is Iran not on anyone’s radar? Because calling for the end of an Islamic regime is not as satisfying as demanding the annihilation of the world’s one Jewish state.
Imagine the outcry if a group of Jewish public schoolteachers would announce a “Zionist teach-in” for MLK Day. Would Mayor Mamdani allow such a disruption of a national holiday?
The butchers of Tehran love their own freedom to be butchers. What they can’t seem to stomach is to give their people the same freedom to be human.
The rabbi’s goal is to make sure that Chai Lifeline is there to assist in any way possible.
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
Mayors come and go, but the Jewish people will continue onward.
That we are inured to the rising tide of antisemitism is dismaying—but it isn’t shocking.
It’s well-known that the hate that starts with Jews never ends with Jews. Hating Jews, in other words, is suicidal, which makes it even more stupid.
