Thursday, August 31, 2006

Public Reactions Are Strong to A Personal Journey

By Orit Arfa

Los Angeles photographer Naomi Solomon capped off her informal summer presentation series "Settlers: A Photographic Journey of the Life and. . .

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Promoting Jewish Learning

By Carolyn Slutsky

Billed as "Jewish Literacy: A Learned Community and a Community of Learners," CAJE 31 was a raw, messy, creative affair, with 20 sessions held every. . .

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Chipping Away at Israel Support Endangers U.S.

By Joe R. Hicks

Is this simply Israel's war to win or lose?

Monday, August 14, 2006

Pets left behind in the North are focus of Israeli volunteers

By Dina Kraft

When tens of thousands of Israelis fled their homes as Hezbollah rockets began raining down on northern Israel, they left behind not only hastily. . .

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Hey Kids!

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer

This section of the page will be a way for you as kids to sound off on an issue. This month's kein v' lo (yes and no) is about New Year's. Should. . .

Thursday, August 19, 2004

World Briefs

By JTA Staff

World Briefs.

Thursday, August 5, 2004

The Days and Nights of Berkowitz

By Marc Ballon

On a recent bus ride through the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz ignores the rustic scenery surrounding him.

Thursday, May 27, 2004

The new face of Russian Jewry

By Lea Silverman

When Tatyana Sharfman applied to immigrate to the United States, she was not yet sure that she wanted to leave her native country of Russia. Her. . .

Thursday, October 23, 2003

Unacceptable

By Michael Tolkin

After The New Republic's Gregg Easterbrook wrote in his online column that Jewish executives in Hollywood "worship money above all else," he. . .

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Mourning

By Avner Hofstein

Nimrod, the youngest, was a creative kid, the wild type who wanted to try it all. Girls followed him around, and he was always busy with projects --. . .

Thursday, April 24, 2003

Bush Names Friend to Museum Council

By Tom Tugend

Century City lawyer Donald Etra has been appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Bush, a close friend since their undergraduate. . .

Thursday, September 26, 2002

The Nonviolent Fighter

By Tom Tugend

Palestinian physics professor Ghassan Andoni treads a difficult line. His ardent advocacy of fighting the "Israeli occupation," by nonviolent methods. . .

Thursday, September 5, 2002

Collection of Pearl’s Articles a Real Gem

By Aaron Leibel

From this collection's first article -- "In Indian Quake, Death Haunts the Living" (2001) -- Daniel Pearl's journalistic qualities shine through.. . .

Thursday, September 5, 2002

Fighting Hate ‘Under Danny’s Banner’

By Tom Tugend

Professor Judea Pearl, an internationally recognized authority on machine intelligence, has discovered a great deal about human emotion -- both. . .

Thursday, September 5, 2002

Truths in Pearl’s Final Words

By Tom Tugend

Did Daniel Pearl die as a martyr, proudly proclaiming his Jewishness, or did his abductors force a reluctant admission from him at gunpoint shortly. . .

Thursday, July 26, 2001

Forms of Frustration

By Mike Levy

Marie Kaufman needed help. Even though the 60-year-old social worker is the president of a Holocaust child survivor's support group and has worked as. . .

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Not for Keeps

By Burt Prelutsky

There are lots of things wrong with awards, aside from the fact that I so rarely win one.

Thursday, May 10, 2001

Mother of Invention

By Jane Ulman

The photographs from my son Gabe's bar mitzvah sit on my dining room table, waiting to be ordered. His bar mitzvah took place more than a year. . .

Thursday, April 26, 2001

Peace and Processing

By Stuart Schoffman

On a recent Tuesday even-ing, 24 hours before the arrival of Yom HaShoah, I attended a symposium in Jerusalem on a subject both intriguing and. . .

Thursday, April 19, 2001

Was FDR to Blame?

By Leonard Fein

Scholars will doubtless continue to debate Franklin Roosevelt's actions -- and inaction -- regarding the Holocaust. What did he know? When did he. . .

Thursday, April 19, 2001

FDR’s Holocaust of Inaction

By Sidney Zion

FDR died on April 12, 1945. I was 11 years old and heard the news on the radio in the bird store, where I was buying seed for my little canary.

Thursday, April 12, 2001

Draining the Swamps

By Stuart Schoffman

It is a truth nearly universally acknowledged in Israel and the United States that we offered the Palestinians peace, and they chose bloodshed. More. . .

Thursday, April 5, 2001

Strangers at the Feast

By Ellen Jaffe-Gill

My worst Passover was my first in Los Angeles, more than half a lifetime ago. I had nowhere to go the first night, and the second night, a college. . .

Thursday, March 29, 2001

Only With Unity Can Israel Truly Soar

By Avi Weiss

While there may be much truth to this claim, not only is there no left, there is no right either.