Making a home for lone soldiers fighting for Israel
A sign on a kitchen cabinet at the Beit Shemesh Home for Lone Soldiers explains color designations for meat, dairy and pareve dishes.Related Entries September 15, 2016 Three ways a lone soldier can...
View ArticleThree ways a lone soldier can join the IDF
There are three ways a lone soldier can serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Related Entries September 15, 2016 Making a home for lone soldiers fighting for Israel August 24, 2016 Israeli army...
View ArticleThe business of challah – more than just making dough
Normally on Thursday afternoons, Dan Messinger and his head baker at Bibi’s Bakery & Cafe, Gilberto Escobar, fold pieces of dough on a large rustic table, making braided challah.Related Entries...
View ArticleChallah: Braiding our community together
Start to finish, making challah is a multisensory, multilevel process: mixing ingredients into dough, taking time to let it rise, punching it down, letting it rise some more, separating the dough into...
View ArticleShimon Peres: To be a Jew
Excerpted from: “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” (Jewish Lights, 2004, now Turner Publishing). The book won the National Jewish Book Award.Related Entries...
View ArticleFaces of homelessness in Los Angeles
Cal State Northridge journalism professor David Blumenkrantz traveled to four locations in the San Fernando Valley in August to photograph and speak with homeless individuals in an attempt to spotlight...
View ArticleL.A.’s boldest plan ever to help the homeless
For even the most observant Jews, sleeping in the sukkah is a serious weeklong commitment that’s not without its challenges.
View ArticleMy sexual assault, and yours: Every woman’s story
I remember staring at his scotch glass.Related Entries November 9, 2016 Election 2016: Jews and hillbillies November 9, 2016 ADL congratulates Trump: ‘American democracy at work’ November 9, 2016 Exit...
View ArticleDigital hate: After the election, will this be our new normal?
It was February, right after the South Carolina Republican primary, and Donald Trump had been declared the winner. Bethany Mandel, a writer who usually focuses on politics and culture from a...
View ArticleHate speech in your social media feed? Try these tips
Social media sites are tools with seemingly infinite potential. In the right hands, they can be a space of community connections and great comfort, but they also can be used to promote messages of...
View ArticleKamala Harris has a proven record as a strong leader
A few months ago, I was privileged to welcome California Attorney General Kamala Harris into my home.Related Entries November 9, 2016 Election 2016: Jews and hillbillies November 8, 2016 Trump has...
View ArticleA guide for the perplexed California voter: State propositions and county...
Because of our holy books, Jews are used to navigating long, complicated legalistic texts. But nothing could have prepared us for the 224-page voter guide that arrived in the mail this election cycle,...
View ArticleThe case for Donald Trump: Voting for the judiciary
I am disgusted — as a law professor, an attorney, a father of daughters, and as a rabbi — by the abuse of women that marks this election cycle.Related Entries November 9, 2016 Election 2016: Jews and...
View ArticleThe case for Hillary Clinton: A brighter future
To my dearest children,Related Entries November 9, 2016 Election 2016: Jews and hillbillies November 9, 2016 Hillary found her winning voice — after she lost November 9, 2016 Exit poll: Jewish vote...
View ArticleThe new political reality: Jews encounter Donald Trump
We are living in the aftermath of a 21st-century election that divided this nation by class, ethnicity, geography and culture.Related Entries November 23, 2016 Dershowitz: ‘Trump knows how to show...
View ArticleHow to talk Trump at the Thanksgiving table
For the past two years, “Racist Trump” and “Crooked Hillary” became convenient scapegoats for us to fight over.Related Entries November 23, 2016 Dershowitz: ‘Trump knows how to show outrage’ November...
View ArticleAfter Trump: Can Bipartisan friendships be saved?
OK, I’ll come clean: I voted for Donald J. Trump. More accurately, I voted against Hillary Clinton.Related Entries November 22, 2016 How to talk Trump at the Thanksgiving table November 16, 2016 The...
View ArticlePirkei Avot: A guidebook for the new administration
The Bible instructs every Jewish king that he must have one book with him all the time: the Torah.Related Entries November 30, 2016 What happens after Trump? November 30, 2016 Holocaust survivors weigh...
View ArticleThe ADL director and the war against hate in Trump’s America
When Jonathan Greenblatt took the top job at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in July 2015, Donald Trump was an outside candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and a favorite punch line of...
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