It was only six weeks ago that fires ravaged greater Los Angeles, taking with it chunks of Westmont College in Montecito and turning to rubble a monastery above Santa Barbara.
A new fire is burning in the heart of Santa Barbara. It’s already consumed some homes and is barreling toward downtown and the city’s famous nightlife and Franciscan mission.
These are among the themes of Rosh Hashanah: Who will live and who will die? Who will suffer and who will prosper? And if I may add a couple of questions of my own: Who will be grateful and who will be ungrateful? Who will complain and who will create?
One thing I am sure of: Judea is inarguably a proud Jew, a steadfast member of this multimillennial Jewish Peoplehood. The other is that I love the man, plain and simple.
Daniela Gerson’s “The Wanderers” is all that you can ask for from a book. Meticulously researched, exquisitely told, it is an adventure story spanning more than 80 years, even a love story.
The project was organized by the Nova Tribe Community Association, the nonprofit created after Oct. 7, by producers of the Nova festival to support survivors and bereaved families and commemorate those murdered.
Assume the next surprise attack is only a matter of time, and use that time to make it harder to carry out and less catastrophic when it comes.
OBKLA has welcomed more than 80,000 volunteers, including students, synagogue and church groups, corporate organizations, top leadership teams from companies such as Netflix and Amazon and, of course, celebrities.
Through poetic reflections, Torah wisdom and personal stories, Salem explores the shofar as a tool for mindfulness, healing, surrender and inner transformation.
Islamist terrorism remains a threat to the United States, the West, and the Jewish people. We cannot allow the history of September 11 to be twisted into an indictment of the society that was attacked.
I’m telling you that there’s something special about this apple cake and the way that it just melts in your mouth.
This ideological pogrom eerily mapped out the antizionism mania that has now hit America’s shores, using the noble fights against racism, colonialism and oppression for ignoble ends.
A blessing looks forward. An assessment looks back. This week, we asked Israelis to look back.
I find myself constantly creating scenarios in my head where someone who used to be my best friend reaches out and apologizes for everything.
What I learned most from the people who told us their stories is that the Australian Jewish community is in a state of shock but is resilient, going about its day-to-day life in the way Jews have practiced for generations in the face of hatred.
There is an important distinction between education and advocacy. We should insist that Jewish and Israeli voices are not silenced.
