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Joe Klein’s dual-loyalty assertion for Jews

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 1, 2008


God’s Blog #4: Leaving your father and mother

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 1, 2008


A direct line with The God Blog

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 1, 2008


Welcoming God’s Blog to The God Blog

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on May 30, 2008


Briefs: Blogging for Israel@60, Weil makes it official

Published on May 1, 2008

News Briefs

Brave + mensch = ?

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 27, 2007

Three years ago, we were sitting around our offices dreaming up an end-of-the-year issue, inundated with examples from other magazines: The Ten Best Movies, The Ten Richest Angelenos, The Ten Most Powerful Hollywood Players, The Ten Top Restaurants, The Ten Hottest Bars and et cetera.

Since these lists are both celebration and statement, we decided we wanted to promote something a little different. What if a list championed a Jewish value, not people, things or bars (not that there's anything wrong with them....)?

Virtual, viral fundraising brings real donations

By Andrew Keshner
Published on December 6, 2007

Hoping to raise money for a three-day bike ride over Labor Day to benefit the Jewish environmental organization Hazon, Ariela Pelaia turned to her blog.

Generation Next—a new vision for the Jewish future

By Esther D. Kustanowitz
Published on November 29, 2007

This speech, by writer/editor/blogger Esther D. Kustanowitz, was delivered at the 2007 General Assembly convened in Nashville by United Jewish Communities as part of the "Next Generation" plenary. At the plenary, a range of young Jewish and Israeli activists, bloggers, an Oscar-winning filmmaker and others described their visions of community building and the power of the collective.

Blogs are so vicious (according to Fox News, anyhow)

By JewishJournal.com
Published on July 29, 2007


The Archivist

By Dara Lehon
Published on July 19, 2007

My poor handwriting quickly morphed into a sans serif, size-10 font and postage became obsolete. What had gone into my diary, I started blogging; what I used to hold inside, I'm e-mailing; and when I used to call to say "hi" and plan, I'm texting. Enter the almighty Smartphone and high-speed Internet and suddenly, I'm compelled to my QWERTY.


Featured Stories

Tommywood
Steven Spielberg dreams anew

What does it mean that Spielberg's other founding partners, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, are no longer with the company?

Theater
Emily Stern—Howard Stern’s daughter—on stage and off

As a child, Emily first performed in the choir at her Reform temple in Roslyn, N.Y., where she sang at children's services and Jewish camp. She continued to perform in high school; but studying acting at New York University did not mesh well with her intuitive approach to theater, she said.

Israel
Briefs: Peace process proceeeds, says Livni; Bush waives Palestinian aid rules

Tzipi Livni said the peace process will move forward and that Israel will be able to face challenges better with a stable government.

Green
Menorah lights hope for second oil miracle

From Iran to Venezuela, petrodictators are using billions of our dollars to fund terrorism and propaganda against the United States and Israel, noted Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center.

Los Angeles
VideoJew’s VideoGuide to L.A. #2—Driving from here to there

VideoJew Jay Firestone is back with the second 'volume' in his VideoGuide to L.A. This week -- driving around town

World
Anne Frank diary resonates with Cambodians

The famed Holocaust memoir, translated into Khmer, strikes an all-too-familiar theme for a people who felt the genocidal wrath of a despotic regime.

Films
Habonim spirit influences work of director Mike Leigh in ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’

Leigh's physician father and midwife mother met through Habonim, the Labor Zionist youth movement, in 1936. Mike Leigh, in turn, became a Habonim leader and traveled with the group to Israel on a ship as a teenager. The experience had a dramatic effect on his future work as an artist: "The atmosphere was one of chevrah, of sharing, openness and coming together -- of making things happen by colluding -- which describes the spirit of how I work with actors and the atmosphere of my rehearsals."

Elections
Wall Street, Main Street, Jew Street

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.

Music
MUSIC: ‘That Yemenite Kid’ Diwon makes a mix tape—in Yiddish

Courtesy of Diwon, the artist formerly known as DJ Handler and otherwise known as the executive director of Modular Moods and Shemspeed.com, comes this fresh mix of pop, hip-hop, electronica and . . . Yiddish?

Calendar
Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Oct. 11-17: Mr. Maus in the haus, Yiddishkayt, Sita Sings the Blues

Singles
True confessions of an online dating addict #10: Dating more than one person at a time

Torah Portion
Restoring Moses

Parshat Ha'azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52) It isn't nice to say, but if I were hanging out in the desert with my friends -- all excited about moving in to a land of milk, honey and great falafel -- and an old man with a stutter insisted on "speaking into our ears" a weird doom

Weddings
Personalize your ketubah without breaking the law

Although the Orthodox community is committed to the existing ketubah document, whose language comes from the Mishnah, Blau said he has no problem with a bride and a groom making additional agreements and commitments, as long as they do not controvert Jewish law.

Opinion
Wall Street, Main Street, Jew Street

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.