Why I love Jews by Choice
Rabbi Dan Moskovitz
May 23, 2012
The first conversion I ever performed as a rabbi was for a 45-year-old father of two who was in the final stages of liver cancer.
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Putting the Ten Commandments on display
Jewish Journal
May 17, 2012
Are the Ten Commandments only to be heard but not seen? And when they are seen, how should they look?
DIYers take on Pesach
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
April 4, 2012
At first glance, it’s hard to tell if Eileen Levinson’s Alternative Seder Plate is deeply thoughtful or merely playful. Or perhaps just coolly irreverent.
Can we afford kosher lettuce?
Jonah Lowenfeld
January 25, 2012
On a Monday morning in November, two men sat on the edge of a field in Carpinteria, 85 miles north of Los Angeles. The older one, middle-aged, wiry and bareheaded, had the face of someone who has served in the military, worked in agriculture or, in his case, both. Alongside him was a younger man who wore a black kippah and looked, from his complexion, like he spends his days indoors.
Why we should attack Iran
Jewish Journal
January 18, 2012
The United States and Iran are on a path toward direct armed conflict. In early October, U.S. officials accused Iranian operatives of planning to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States on American soil. In early January, Tehran sentenced to death an American citizen visiting family in Iran on charges of alleged espionage.
The big tent: Jews, Muslims, Christians celebrate spirituality in a shared sacred space
Rachel Heller
December 21, 2011
Whirling Dervishes, an elaborate feast and a lecture by a prominent Muslim scholar – Musallah Tauhid’s joyous celebration of its move to a new home in 2008 heralded good times ahead for the Sufi Muslim worship group.
The book of Maccabees, occupied
Jonah Lowenfeld
December 14, 2011
At the Dec. 5 meeting of the Los Angeles General Assembly — the utterly democratic body that acts to guide, if not exactly govern, Occupy Los Angeles — a facilitator named Chase posed the following question:
Obligation to redeem captive trumps heavy price paid
Uri Dromi
October 18, 2011
The announcement last week of the release of Gilad Shalit after being held in captivity by Hamas for more than five years was met here in Israel with mixed feelings: On the one hand, tremendous joy. And on the other hand, grave doubts about the price paid and fears about the ramifications of this deal.
Gilad Shalit nation: Family first, country second
Jewish Journal
October 18, 2011
Seeing how Israel has reacted to Gilad Shalit’s imprisonment somewhere in Gaza over the last nearly five-and-a-half years — from the public campaign for his release, through the media’s reality-show treatment of him and his family, to the government’s decision to release 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds of killers, to bring him back — it’s hard to believe that this nation’s traditional symbol is the sabra, the cactus.
Food Forward, gleaning the neighborhoods
Ryan Torok
October 12, 2011
On a recent weekend morning, sunlight lit up a band of eager workers in jeans and T-shirts who had ventured into a backyard at a home in Northridge. They were there to pick oranges.
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