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Letters to the editor: Responses to immigrants and Trump, Journal’s 30th anniversary, Stephen Miller on Stephen Miller
The most beautiful women in the world
On my mother’s vanity table, all smooth mahogany and beveled mirrors, the pancake powder smelled like ball gowns and midnight music.
Chanukah: Sugar rush
I don’t know what it was like for the others, but, for me, Chanukah as a holiday has been a complete revelation.
What I learned on Kibbutz Kfar Menachem
You forget, you know, that there are other ways to live.
Persian-Jewish women keep tradition alive on canvas
In reporting on the Jewish community, I’ve learned about politics, schools, aging, race relations, religion and other matters. Few of these topics combine the complexity, creativity and history of a fascinating subset of Los Angeles Jewry, the Persian-Jewish women who paint.
Marriage: What’s in a promise?
The week after my parents’ wedding, at the swanky Officers’ Club in downtown Tehran, another Jewish couple were married in the same ballroom, by the same rabbi, and before many of the same invitees.
The Jew, the Copt and the Yazidi
I’ll get to those three in a minute but first, let me tell you what a Muslim friend said to me a couple of months ago.