Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Rabbis for Obama seen as a first in American politics; Michelle Obama’s rabbi cousin signs up

By Eric Fingerhut

The grass-roots organization was formed when two Chicago-area rabbis came to the Democratic candidate's campaign wanting to help counter rumors that. . .

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Being an African American candidate is different

By Raphael J. Sonenshein

An African American candidacy is different. Obama can't easily be the racial middleman as Clinton was. And being aggressive carries its own special. . .

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

McCain campaign checks out sole Jewish Republican Congressman as possible VP

By Ron Kampeas

As recently as May, the only Jewish Republican in the House discounted suggestions that he would place on the ticket, giggling as he told JTA that. . .

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

State Assembly hopeful is a political and personal bridge builder

By Tom Tugend

If elected, one of his top priorities will be California's "quality of life," especially in upgrading the state's infrastructure. "Every one dollar. . .

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Obama’s support lags previous Dems, poll finds

By Ami Eden

But the surveys had bad news for Obama: If the U.S. presidential election were held today, American Jews would support the Illinois senator at a. . .

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Now that Obama is in Israel, what should we expect?

By Ami Eden

Barack Obama arrived in Israel and stressed the historic ties between the United States and the Jewish state. The presumptive Democratic presidential. . .

Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Hadassah convention - VideoJew style

By Jay Firestone

The 94th annual Hadassah convention recently traveled to Los Angeles and JewishJournal.com VideoJew Jay Firestone was all over it, like jelly on. . .

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Fear of an Obama Planet grips some Americans

By Mona Eltahawy

As soon as I saw The New Yorker cover spoofing right-wing fear mongering over Barack and Michelle Obama, my first thought was that my friend, Sanjay,. . .

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The L.A. Times ‘frames’ the Presidential race

By Raphael J. Sonenshein

This assertion, which is totally irrelevant to the campaign of 2008, leads to a source saying that McCain would definitely not represent the third. . .

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The Family Doctrine: Q & A with author Jeff Sharlet

By Brad A. Greenberg

Jeff Sharlet's latest book, a terrifying read, is light on gore and heavy on religion. In "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of. . .

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Pacific Palisades Chabad preschool denied lease extension

By Jane Ulman

An eight-to-one vote by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Board -- along with a unanimous vote by the Conservancy Advisory Board -- last night. . .

Thursday, July 3, 2008

The next president’s gums

By Marty Kaplan

The 1960 presidential debates were arguably the first reality show. What took so long for television executives to figure out that there's gold in. . .

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Chabad finds possible solution to land-use problem in Pacific Palisades

By Jane Ulman

The recent discovery of a long-overlooked legal document could substantially alter the situation, potentially allowing for a public street to be. . .

Thursday, June 12, 2008

2008: The contest for the Jews

By Raphael J. Sonenshein

In a society that has become less and less informed about politics and government, Jews remain a deeply attentive political community. Intensely. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Israel: A work in progress

By Glenn Yago

From the birth of the Zionist movement more than a century ago through its 60 years as a Jewish state, Israel has come of age amid a vastly changing. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

How to answer the most common anti-Israel charges

By John L. Rosove

Some charges criticizing Israel are distortions and slanted, based on faulty information and half-truths, animus, and even classic anti-Semitism.. . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Israel faces challenges on three fronts

By Sergio DellaPergola

Israel at 60 faces three major challenges: identity, technology and politics. The future Israel will have to strive and struggle to maintain a. . .

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Genocide 2.0

By Rob Eshman

In Washington and abroad, longstanding Jewish organizations added their voices of protest against the genocide in Darfur. But guess what: It's not. . .

Friday, March 14, 2008

AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills

By Karmel Melamed

AUDIO: Iranian American Jews -- Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Q & A with investigative journalist Seymour Hersh

By Brad A. Greenberg

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Iran, Israel and the 2008 election

By Raphael J. Sonenshein

The Republican Party has a two-sided albatross around its neck, an unpopular president who is trying desperately to keep an unpopular war going past. . .

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Elegy for a Dream

By Gina Nahai

The Shah of Iran symbolized, with his youth and his seemingly limitless future, the power and grandeur that, we believed, would one day be his -- he. . .

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Books: Nusseibeh ‘Once Upon a Country’ memoir ends in disillusionment

By Howard Kaplan

The scion of an aristocratic Jerusalem family, Nusseibeh traces his roots back 1,300 years to one of the tribal leaders who joined Mohammad on his. . .

Thursday, August 30, 2007

We should speak out for HR 106

By Steven M. Goldberg

HR 106 already has 227 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and is supported by a majority of Jewish senators and congressmen across the. . .