Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Seismic Jew
By Rob Eshman
The last time I saw Christopher Hitchens speak publicly in Los Angeles, he argued against God and religion. This time, delivering the eighth annual . . .
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Houses of Mourning
By Rob Eshman
In one month, four young lives are gone, each one of them taken in an automobile accident. One after another — it feels less like a coincidence . . .
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tragedies
By Rob Eshman
The year started tragically. When the 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, it looked as if fate finally had humanity on the ropes. The . . .
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Love Train [SLIDESHOW]
By Rob Eshman
I first met Ed and Bernie Massey 12 years ago when they organized a citywide art project to paint the oil derrick towers at Beverly Hills High . . .
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Michael Oren
By Rob Eshman
This week, Michael Oren kept up a very busy schedule in Los . . .
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Goldstone Versus Haiti
By Rob Eshman
If you eat Jewish food you’re likely to get heart disease. If you read Jewish news you’re likely to get . . .
Friday, January 29, 2010
The big tent
By Rob Eshman
In the early 1990s, when I started work as a Jewish journalist, there was a great fear in the land. Its name was intermarriage.
The 1990 National . . .
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hollywood Zion
By Rob Eshman
In Philadelphia over winter vacation, I popped over to see the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the nation’s best. I got to stand alone before . . .
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Disaster
By Rob Eshman
Disasters teach us more about religion than religion teaches us about disasters. . . .
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Harman v. Winograd
By Rob Eshman
One Shabbat morning several years ago, Dan Shevitz, one of my two favorite Venice rabbis, was walking down Abbot Kinney Boulevard toward his . . .
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
LAX TLV
By Rob Eshman
The year almost ended with a bang. If not for some brave, smart passengers on that Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam, a Muslim underwear bomber . . .
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
New Year in Natanz
By Rob Eshman
2010 could be the year Iran gets the bomb. . . .
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
What’s Happening
By Rob Eshman
Last week, I met a guy named John who moved out to Los Angeles many years ago, dreaming of . . .
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Bad Behavior
By Rob Eshman
Elliott Broidy seems like a nice guy. I know he’s a charitable one: As I travel through Jewish L.A., I see his name on synagogue and museum . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Why TRIBE?
By Rob Eshman
Why would anyone launch a new publication at a time when every indication is that print is dead and the economy is on life . . .
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Wind-Down Nation?
By Rob Eshman
Ask my wife — every week I come up with one sure-fire, world-changing, patent-worthy invention. My latest is an iPhone app that will tell me a . . .
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Prophet
By Rob Eshman
Last Friday evening, I arrived early for a Shabbat event at American Jewish University, where I was supposed to interview Israeli writer Amos Oz in . . .
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Bibi Then and Now
By Rob Eshman
If you heard Benjamin Netanyahu speak at the General Assembly in Los Angeles three years ago, you would have thought, except for the perfect diction, . . .
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tough Guys
By Rob Eshman
I arrived in Israel in 1984. I didn’t speak or understand Hebrew, didn’t have a job and didn’t have a friend. In my pocket I had the name of . . .
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Chillax
By Rob Eshman
Every day, more like every hour of every day, I get e-mails, letters and phone calls crying out that Israel faces dire threat, if not certain . . .
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Neda Square
By Rob Eshman
Everybody with a cause, everybody angry at a country eventually ends up in front of the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard at Veteran Avenue, . . .
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Thanks, Chief
By Rob Eshman
The way I see it, after a sheriff rides into town, cleans the place up, then rides off into the sunset — those townspeople better be out in the . . .
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Higher Learning
By Rob Eshman
My friend Norma came up to me at the celebration following my daughter’s bat mitzvah and said, “Do you know how special this . . .
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Who Killed the Biodiesel Car? [VIDEO]
By Rob Eshman
This past summer, the last two Westside gas stations offering 99 percent pure biodiesel closed down their pumps. You can still buy regular gasoline . . .
