The Bagels are back, talking High Holy Days prep, anticipating Rachel Bloom’s new book, and parsing the news from the Shtiselverse. Esther objects to a “Dirty Dancing” sequel and Erin can’t conceive Zac Efron in a “Three Men and a Baby” remake. Plus, our first-ever podcast mention of Steve Guttenberg, and our hopes and dreams that Olivia Wilde’s Marvel movie will feature a Spider-Beanie Feldstein.
His story is worth revisiting, touching as it does so many timely topics related to today’s discussions of Jews, Christians, America and Israel nearly two centuries after Cresson’s death.
I want to make the case that for life satisfaction there are few, if any, professions or callings that begin to match being a Rabbi.
This is a moment for the people of Iran to exercise their courage and their power. And it is a moment for the world to stand together in support.
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.
