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The Muslim assassination plot and President Bush

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on August 8, 2008


Prager; CAIR; Gibson; The Boot!

Published on December 14, 2006

letters to the editor

Israeli-Palestinian Confederation; CAIR; Borat; Elections; More JewQ questions

Published on November 16, 2006

Josef Avesar says of the Israelis and Palestinian Arabs that "each side demands that the other relinquish crucial aspects of its identity," and that therefore, some form of confederation would be a "pragmatic" solution to their problems ("Mideast Solution: A Confederation," Nov. 3). Both Avesar's diagnosis and prescription are wrong.

Cluster bombs; again with the ‘Dumb Jews;’ Democrats vs Republicans one more time; Jews in Space!

Published on November 9, 2006

Calling for condemnation of the IDF's use of cluster bombs against Hezbollah would degrade Israel's ability to defend herself, thus encouraging Hezbollah to again employ their vast rocket and missile inventory to terrorize and murder Israeli civilians and to damage Israel's economy ("Cluster Silence," Oct. 31).

L.A. Times violates journalistic ethics in Anaheim City Council election coverage

By Steven Emerson
Published on October 19, 2006

Bill Dalati, a Syrian-born insurance agent, is running for a spot on Anaheim's City Council. His candidacy has come under scrutiny because of his association with a controversial organization with known links to the Hamas terror group and his participation at a virulently anti-Israel rally this past summer.

Community Briefs

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 24, 2005

Community Briefs


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.