Why Jews fought — and should keep fighting — for the rights of domestic workers
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2013
Jews have, once again, helped working men and women in this country win a great labor rights victory.
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Shutdown may affect Jewish social services
Jared Sichel
October 1, 2013
Congress’ failure to authorize discretionary spending for the new fiscal year won’t only impact about 800,000 federal workers or the Americans looking to visit national parks. It may also affect local Jewish social service organizations that rely in part on federal funding.
Caredim in church? The wackiest result from the Pew ‘Jewish Americans’ survey
Jewish Journal
October 1, 2013
The new Pew Research Center’s new study “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” offers a treasure trove of survey data on American Jewry. It’s a particularly valuable service since the Jewish Federations of North America opted not do a repeat of the decennial National Jewish Population Study to cap “the aughts.”
Conversion: Kimia Sun
Kylie Ora Lobell
September 4, 2013
Kimia Sun was born a refugee. Her parents were survivors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rogue, which claimed nearly 2 million lives in the late 1970s. The couple was among the lucky ones and escaped to a refugee camp in Thailand, where Sun was born and spent her first months. Next, the family traveled to the Philippines, where Sun’s parents learned English and purchased plane tickets for America.
West Hollywood’s tzedakah mayor
Roberto Loiederman
July 24, 2013
In any town across the country, a city council meeting can feel a lot like ground zero for American democracy: One by one, residents approach the podium and address the decision-makers with suggestions or grievances. With a few changes, a similar scene could have played out in a medieval English shire or a 19th century Polish shtetl.
Proud to be a baby boomer
Pat Sierchio
July 19, 2013
Being a baby boomer is more than a statistic, it’s a state of mind. Boomers rock and everyone knows it. And by everyone I mean the baby boomers. We baby boomers tend to have a high opinion of ourselves, and there is plenty of evidence that supports that notion.
Dwelling together: Parashat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2013
My father, originally from a small-town farm in Kansas, converted to Judaism when I was a young child. You can imagine that my seder table looks a lot like many American seder tables. Ours hosts a grand mixture of people — religiously, ethnically, socially and politically diverse. My congregational family at Temple Israel of Hollywood reflects the same. The Jewish communities I occupy are, at their core, wonderfully varied.
IRS’ ‘return free’ bad for most vulnerable
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2013
As April 15 nears each year, American taxpayers take inventory of their income and expenses and hand over a year’s worth of detail to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Many of us utilize the expertise of accountants to prepare what will become a complex analysis of the many life happenings that impact the sum of the taxes we owe or our refund.
Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2013
Vice President Joe Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception that American and Jewish cultures are intertwined.
Criticism is not Islamophobia
David Suissa
April 22, 2013
Criticism is the oxygen of journalism. Here at the Jewish Journal, we will criticize anything that we believe deserves criticism, including religion.
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