Gun violence in America: Scandal!
Rob Eshman

By Rob Eshman

Two years after his mother was shot and killed, Dallas Sonnier received a phone call from the police: His father had just been shot and killed.

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What happened to Obama?
David Suissa

By David Suissa

You know things are getting rough for President Barack Obama when even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal thought, starts ridiculing him. Reacting to how the president is distancing himself from his administration’s three emerging scandals—the mishandling of the embassy attack at Benghazi, the targeting of a right-wing group by the IRS and press snooping by the Department of Justice -- the magazine’s resident humorist, Andy Borowitz, wrote a post on its Web site titled, “Obama Denies Role in Government.”

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Judd Apatow and Marc Maron bond as Jews and men

By Danielle Berrin

Tribal affiliation notwithstanding, Apatow, 45, and Maron, 49, couldn’t be more different.

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Honor trumps love
Dennis Prager

Between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day is a good time to return again to the fifth of the Ten Commandments, “Honor your father and your mother.”

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Jewish values inspire immigration reform
Opinion

by Rabbi Ron Stern

Of all the stories of the human condition, in many ways, this is quite ordinary. It’s a story of an elderly grandmother and her granddaughter; of familial love and loss.

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Jewish Leadership, Values and the Challenge to Inspire Hope

Israel faces grave, unprecedented physical dangers: a nuclear Iran, jihadists on her borders and chaotic upheavals shaking the foundations of the Arab world. On top of all this, Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state is increasingly on the line, not only attacked in the global propaganda of our enemies but debated in the respectable forum of the academy. And while a majority of Israelis supports a two-state solution, a majority of Israelis distrusts the intentions and capacity of Palestinians to make peace.

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The Wall
Greenberg's View

By Steve Greenberg

Editorial cartoon

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Claims Conference Brouhaha
World

by Uriel Heilman, JTA

Those are the questions critics are asking following the disclosure that the Claims Conference received an anonymous letter in 2001 identifying several fraudulent Holocaust-era restitution claims — nearly a decade before the organization halted a massive fraud scheme.

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ZOA regains tax-exempt status
Nation

By Jonah Lowenfeld

After 15 months, the nonprofit pro-Israel Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has regained its tax-exempt status.

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Two restaurants drop RCC after Doheny scandal
Los Angeles

By Jonah Lowenfeld

Less than two months after a private investigator videotaped the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market allegedly bringing unsupervised animal products into his store, two local kosher restaurants have dropped the Rabbinical Council of California (RCC) as their glatt kosher certifier.

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Ruling on campus hate
Los Angeles

By Jonah Lowenfeld

Over the past decade, as anti-Israel demonstrations have become a regular occurrence on many U.S. college campuses, Jewish nonprofits and individuals have turned to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for relief, and with some success. They convinced the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for one, to investigate anti-Israel speech and actions at three University of California campuses, arguing that such speech is tantamount to anti-Semitism and violates the civil rights of Jewish students.

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Moving and Shaking: Irving Lebovics honored, Shavuot Biblical Fair festivities, teen donates
Los Angeles

By Ryan Torok

The Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP) honored Orthodox community leader Irving Lebovics on May 9.

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Humility and a Deal: The story behind the 99 Cents Only stores
Los Angeles

by Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Contributing Writer

He founded a retail empire that grew to be worth about $1.6 billion, but Dave Gold, the man behind the popular 99 Cents Only Stores, lived a simple life focused on kindness to others, friends and family told the Journal.

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Civility replaces violence in ‘Last White Night’

By Naomi Pfefferman

In June 1965, during the most violent days of the civil rights movement, 21-year-old Paul Saltzman drove from Toronto to Mississippi to become a freedom fighter with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Choosing between love and obligation
Culture

By Tom Tugend

"Fill the Void,” which won Israel’s equivalent of the Academy Award last year, is a love story unlike any Hollywood fare and it is set in a Jewish community unfamiliar to most Jews.

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A talent agent turns yogurt maven
Food

by Gerri Miller, Contributing Writer

Amy Salko Robertson — producer of such films as “The Oh in Ohio,” “Lab Rats” and “When Do We Eat?” a comedy set at a Passover seder —realized that she couldn’t continue to rely on the speculative indie film world for income after her husband, John, was injured in a freak accident in 2010, leaving him unable to work. She responded the only way she knew how: Salko Robertson started a frozen yogurt shop.

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Startup classroom
Lifestyle

by Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c

In a twist on the classic academic approach to entrepreneurship, Israeli universities are trending toward classroom-based incubators that allow students to put theory to the test in a sheltering atmosphere. After all, what better way to learn how to start a business than to actually start one?

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‘God is a fraud’
Torah Portion

by Rabbi Paul Kipnes

In this week’s parasha, Beha’alotecha, Moses faces the fragility of life as he watches his sister, Miriam, struggle with tzara’at, a dangerous skin disease. Overcome with anguish, Moses cries out to God. His five-word prayer, the shortest recorded in the Torah, beseeches the Holy One: El na r’fa na la (O God, please heal her). God hears, and miraculously Miriam is healed (Numbers 12:1-16). For some, this parasha provides comfort that, indeed, our prayers for healing work. And then there are people like Sarah.

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Obituaries
Obituaries

Rubin Barasch died March 31 at 87. Survived by wife Lillian; daughters Marsha Evans, Cindy (Larry) Shilkoff; sons Billy, Daniel, Shel (Terry Logan); 6 grandchildren.

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Calendar Picks and Clicks: May 25–31
Picks and Clicks

By Ryan Torok

Bridging the shores of the Mediterranean and the Pacific, entrepreneurs, investors, executives and tech enthusiasts from around the world converge on this two-day annual gathering at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset to learn about Israeli businesses and discover the next big trend.

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Letters to the Editor: Cleveland Kidnappings, Hawking, Mount Zion Cemetery
Letters to the Editor

This is a thought-provoking article about our own responsibility as neighbors (“We Must Be Our Brother’s Keeper,” May 17). How do we strike the balance between being intrusive and being helpful?

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