This story should be called The People vs. The Executive Committee. The People in this instance are the families and individuals who make up the approximately 5,000-strong membership of the Westside Jewish Community Center on Olympic Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue.
There is a new reality of life in the upscaleurban oasis of Hancock Park.
The Orthodox Jewish community is moving in andchanging the face of the neighborhood, says Orthodox activist StanleyTreitel.
The second International Conference onOrthodoxy and Feminism was held at New York\’s Grand Hyatt Hotel overPresidents Day weekend.
Jonathan Tobin edits a Jewish newspaper inConnecticut, and his editorial opinions occasionally appear in TheJewish Journal. One such effort, \”Distinguishing Fact from FictionIsn\’t Getting Easier,\” was published on Jan. 23. Herewith some factto counter Tobin\’s fiction.
When I was growing up in New York in the 1950s, the liberal-leftist microcosm that was my world had one unmitigated villain: Elia Kazan.
For four millenia, the Jewish homeland has survived either as dream or reality. A nomadic tribe began migrating into the Land of Canaan in the early second millenium B.C.E. Their history of wandering, exodus and eventual conquest of Canaan, which they renamed Israel, forms the core story of the Bible.
The histories of nation-building are never simple.The place of the Indians within the American experience reveals themoral ambiguity of that nation\’s struggle for sovereignty. Facing thereality of the past often means facing the reality of moralcompromise.
Feisty Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Orange County,whose narrow upset victory last November toppled arch-conservative Republican Robert K. Dornan and signaled the growing power of the Latino voter, made her case to the Jewish community last week.
This earthy, lyrical film by writer-director Ali Nassar is easilyone of the festival\’s brightest highlights.
On Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 4, about 100 people stood around the black stone sculpture. Some knelt and lit candles. The memorial was covered with flowers and wreaths. One was inscribed, \”Remember, and sound a warning.\”
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