Main discussions focused on changing conditions in the Israeli immigration picture and Israel\’s economy, as well as issues facing overseas Jewish communities.
He has long been known abroad as an Israeli novelist. But this weekend, David Grossman put fiction aside to become the voice of an Israel that is bruised, confused and yearning to see the horizon beyond the perennial war clouds.
… I am speaking here tonight as a person whose love for the land is overwhelming and complex, and yet it is unequivocal, and as one whose continuous covenant with the land has turned his personal calamity into a covenant of blood.
Los Angeles, to the first-time visitor, can seem something of an enigma. Its vast physical spread often spawns negative stereotypes of a city beset by traffic, smog and the absence of a core.
The Liberty Film Festival, now in its third year, aims to present and promote the work of conservative filmmakers who, according to the organizers, are ignored, persecuted and otherwise absent from \”Hollywood.\”\n\nI put Hollywood in quotes because its meaning, as the evening at the Luxe Bel Air Hotel wore on, was elusive.
Are Israelis constitutionally incapable of agreeing on a constitution to govern their country?
UTLA President A.J. Duffy said he advocated canceling the planned Oct. 14 pro-Palestinian gathering because it would have served only to \”polarize our union members and members of our community.\” Instead, he said he supports convening a gathering for a dialogue between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian forces.
Because of their intense activism, Jews have been among the paper\’s most devoted readers and fiercest critics. A substantial part of the paper\’s circulation base has long been in the broad Jewish belt extending from the Westside through the West Valley.
On November\’s ballot, tucked among the local measures affecting only Los Angeles, is curious Measure R, a plan by the Los Angeles City Council to provide each of the 15 council members an extra $570,000 in pay.
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