Thursday, May 23, 2013

What if the Nazis had tweeted?

by Gideon Behar, JTA

What could Goebbels have done with 140 characters? The question, disturbing as it might sound, can no longer be approached only as theoretical.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Jewish values inspire immigration reform

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. . .

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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

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. . .

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Honor trumps love

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. . .

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Gun violence in America: Scandal!

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.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A prayer for Oklahoma

by Rabbi Abby Jacobson, Emanuel Synagogue, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Lord our God, we stood before You just a week ago to receive the Ten Statements of Your Torah. We stood, as though with our ancestors, and listened. . .

Monday, May 20, 2013

What happened to Obama?

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.. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Character references: Eric Garcetti

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

In a few weeks, Eric Garcetti might become Los Angeles’ youngest mayor in more than a century. When Eric was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Character reference: Wendy Greuel

by Janice Kamenir-Reznik

I have known Wendy Greuel for almost 30 years, since she was a young UCLA graduate working for Mayor Tom Bradley.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

A shandah at Mount Zion

By LiAmi Lawrence

After the Los Angeles Times recently published a piece by Hector Becerra on the deplorable conditions of the Mount Zion Cemetery in East Los Angeles. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

His Holiness

By Rob Eshman

Before His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, entered the gilded ballroom of the Montage Beverly Hills last. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

No one loves the stranger

By Gina Nahai

I know what happened with those three women in Cleveland, how one man was able to imprison and torture them in the middle of a residential. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A voter's-eye view of the city election

By Raphael J. Sonenshein

This year, for the first time, the Pat Brown Institute at CSU Los Angeles went into the polling field.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Hawking and Mohammed

By David Suissa

There was so much Jewish outrage last week in the wake of Professor Steven Hawking’s decision to join the academic boycott against Israel, it’s. . .

Monday, May 13, 2013

Attempted divestment at UCSB and the BDS machine

by Max Samarov

Over the last month the UC Santa Barbara student government has been voting on a resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

Monday, May 13, 2013

The day the Earth stood stupid

By Marty Kaplan

Say goodnight, Earthlings. That message — plus the slimmest of shots at an eleventh-hour reprieve — was announced to the people of the world last. . .

Friday, May 10, 2013

On wearing grandpa’s tefillin at the Wall

by Rachel Rubin Green

It’s just before 7 a.m. when I arrive at Kotel Plaza security station to find long lines. My son Andy gets into the swiftly moving line for men.. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Monty Hall, Anne Frank, Boston Hero, Syria

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Fake medicine

By Norman Lavin, M.D, PhD., UCLA Medical School

Caveat emptor means “buyer beware.” Fake medicines are now a multibillion-dollar industry affecting people in virtually every country in the. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Tales from a mother: The Jewish wedding

By Annie Korzen

Every time my son, Jonathan, left for school, for camp, for college, I felt a heartbreaking sense of loss. That’s because your main instinct as a. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Jews and Christians

By Dennis Prager

I have spent much of my adult life working to bring Jews and Christians together. In particular, I have tried to explain to fellow Jews that. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

A mitzvah called shmooze

By David Suissa

In a crummy economy, people are always looking for good investments — a promising stock, a real estate opportunity, a star mutual fund. It’s. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Syrian wake-up

By Rob Eshman

Yes, America, we’ve heard: You’re war-weary. It’s at least something our divided country can agree upon: Americans across party lines oppose. . .

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Judea Pearl reflects: A father’s words

By Judea Pearl

Eleven years ago, when tragedy blackened our skies, and millions of people resonated with our mission of rolling back the hatred that took our. . .