Steve Lipman

Federation Expects to Aid Ethiopian Jews

Published on April 1, 2004

The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles expects to join half a dozen Jewish federations across the United States this week in an emergency allocation of nearly $250,000 for endangered members of the Falash Mura community in Ethiopia.

Shoah Book Brings Museum Experience

Published on March 11, 2004

Michael Berenbaum, a first-rate scholar and writer, who was founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has produced, in effect, a traveling museum, or in barely more than two score pages, a traveling museum exhibit.

Israel Today

Published on June 20, 2002

In those months that determined the future of the Jewish state, between the U.N. partition vote in 1947 and the armistice in 1949, Arab terrorism -- with the cooperation of British troops -- was a part of normal life.

Remembering ‘Every Soul’

Published on March 14, 2002

Naftali Weisz went to Israel along with 400 Yeshiva University (YU) students in Operation Torah Shield II in January, studying Torah as a form of solidarity with Israelis, attending seminars on how to act as "ambassadors" back home and meeting families of the Jews killed during the current Palestinian Arab uprising.