Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Opinion: Save Los Encinos
By Rob Eshman
Things change; I get it. My favorite diner — Benice, in Venice — closed this week after 24 years in business. Life goes on. They pave paradise.. . .
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Bridge to empathy
By Rob Eshman
If you like your satire dark, I mean jet black, you probably love the scene from episode four, season four of “Weeds,” in which Len Botwin,. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Opinion: History lessons
By Rob Eshman
Imagine you are a developing country in the heart of the Middle East. The entire world suspects you are starting to build nuclear weapons, but you. . .
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Opinion: Stop the Stalinists
By Rob Eshman
First, can we all just acknowledge the obvious hypocrisy? Imagine that over the past year Israel had slaughtered 5,000 Palestinians. The Arab. . .
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Opinion: Lord Shmuley?
By Rob Eshman
The first time I met Shmuley Boteach, it was 2 p.m. on a Thursday; he was sitting in the lobby of the Luxe Beverly Hills, and he asked me if I wanted. . .
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Shtarker
By Rob Eshman
Of all the eulogies and essays about Christopher Hitchens that have appeared following his death Dec. 15 at age 62, one is particularly pernicious.. . .
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Opinion: Guilt trips
By Rob Eshman
I wish I had gone out with Sofa Landver last Thursday night. Not for a hot date, but for a cold reality check.. . .
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Opinion: A Jewish vote?
By Rob Eshman
The election to replace the termed-out Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa isn’t until March 2013, but already candidates are out raising cash,. . .
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Rob Eshman: On Iran, one voice
By Rob Eshman
I don’t know who will win the presidential election in 2012, but I know whom I don’t want to win it: Iran.. . .
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Opinion: Proud bastards
By Rob Eshman
A few weeks ago we sent out one of our regular e-blasts with the following headline: “Poll: One in five Americans believes Jews have too much. . .
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Opinion: Like crazy
By Rob Eshman
Events over the past week provide a case study in extremism.. . .
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Opinion: Poor sports
By Rob Eshman
Eventually, there is one thing every aspiring American political writer must do: write a long feature story about how Jews are turning Republican.. . .
Friday, November 4, 2011
Opinion: My lunch with Lefsetz
By Rob Eshman
Do you know about Bob Lefsetz? He is a middle-age guru living in Santa Monica. For 25 years, he’s been commenting on our culture in an. . .
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Opinion: My 2011 Nissan Solyndra
By Rob Eshman
Last June, I wrote about my initial love/hate affair with Nissan’s all-electric production car. Since then, people keep asking me how I like my. . .
Monday, October 17, 2011
Opinion: Shalit.com
By Rob Eshman
What makes this prisoner swap different from all other prisoner swaps? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to exchange Israel Defense. . .
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Opinion: You and the UN
By Rob Eshman
If you care about Israel, you have one very clear assignment over the next two months. In about eight weeks, the U.N. Security Council could vote on. . .
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Opinion: Who’s sorry now?
By Rob Eshman
Some big Jewish ideas really get around. Over the past year, New York Times columnist David Brooks devoted one column to the value of Torah study,. . .
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
OPINION: Rosh Hashanah and the art of beekeeping
By Rob Eshman
“The Backyard Beekeeper.”The Happiness Hypothesis. . .
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Opinion: The big picture
By Rob Eshman
Patrick Goldstein writes “The Big Picture,” a column for the Los Angeles Times.. . .
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Opinion: UN-vote
By Rob Eshman
The threatened U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood has pundits and politicians apoplectic.. . .
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Opinion: 9/11, 10 years later
By Rob Eshman
When I was in New York last week, I prowled Ground Zero.. . .
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Opinion: Face to face
By Rob Eshman
I asked Aatekah Ahhmad Mir, a journalist from Lahore, Pakistan, and Emal Naweed Haidary, a journalist from Kabul, Afghanistan, what sights they. . .
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Heroes of the Arab Spring
By Rob Eshman
A journalist with family in Syria told me there’s a joke going around that country these days.. . .
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Opinion: Count-less
By Rob Eshman
Here’s the dirty little secret about organized Jewish life in Los Angeles: We literally don’t know who we are.. . .
