Rep. Barney Frank: Brad Sherman “not a very good legislator”

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on August 7, 2012

Mergers and consolidations for congregations—it’s the economy, stupid [VIDEO]

By The Web Guy
Published on December 28, 2008

Will recession fuel a return to public schools?

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on December 23, 2008

Throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District, the recession is prompting middle-class parents to take a look at public middle and high schools they have long disdained.

Panel discusses strategies for dealing with recession

By Rachel Heller
Published on December 22, 2008

Talking investment strategy might not top everyone's agenda for a bright Sunday morning, but about 75 local residents gathered at Young Israel of Century City on Dec. 21 to do just that.

Is Bernie Madoff Jewish?  Very. Oy.

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 12, 2008

"It's all just one big lie."

With those words Bernard Madoff confessed to senior executives of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities that the $17 billion hedge fund he founded was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. Madoff is at the center of "the largest investor swindle ever blamed on a single individual."

The news that broke today on the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reverberated in Jewish communities across the world. "A lot of Jewish charities had investments with him," one prominent investor told The Jewish Journal. "So did a lot of Jews."

UPDATE: Among the victims was the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.

Don’t let the stress of ailing economy kill you

Published on November 26, 2008

Research based on 17 years of Pennsylvania unemployment records concluded that workers affected by mass layoffs at a plant were 15 percent more likely to die of any cause over the next two decades.

Pinched pocketbooks no bar to party planning

Published on November 13, 2008

Have tough economic times forced you to scale back your child's bar or bat mitzvah party plans? With your 401(k) down, is the ice sculpture out? Is your resetting ARM making you reconsider that 18-piece orchestra?

Alan shrugged

By Marty Kaplan
Published on October 13, 2008

Wall Street's problem, in the president's mind, is not a systemic pathology, not an illness that comes on the same chromosome as the profit motive. Instead, it's the behavior of a frat boy on a bender, the reckless phase of a good-time Charlie rather than the symptom of profound disease.

Could economic slump—which means less giving— kill Jewish community innovation?

By Jacob Berkman
Published on October 10, 2008

According to a survey taken in late September by the private wealth research firm, Prince & Associates, the cuts have arrived. Fifty-one percent said they planned on giving less next year than they did this past year -- and only 16 percent said they planned on giving more.

Wall Street, Main Street, Jew Street

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 8, 2008

If only those nasty money changers and culture vultures in the seething cities below would just let them sow their wheat and do their books and raise their children up good.

Will Wall Street crisis spur anti-Semitism?

By Ben Harris
Published on October 7, 2008

Will the crisis on Wall Street, where so many Jews work, spur hostility toward Jews? Some Jews certainly seem anxious about it.

Gotcha? You betcha!

By Marty Kaplan
Published on October 6, 2008

But there's also a less benign explanation for the media's negligence, and it's captured by something President Andrew Jackson said nearly two centuries ago: "If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."

Dear Mr. Bloggish, send me some dough

By The Web Guy
Published on September 26, 2008