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Cleveland kidnappings: We must be our brother’s keeper
The exterior of the house where three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately ten years ago were found alive on May 7 in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Pugliano/Getty Images
7 Rules for Perfect Hummus
When was the last time you opened a tub of hummus and swooned? When was the last time a restaurant put a plate of hummus in front of you, and you said, “Oh my God.” Most of the hummus recipes…
Palestinians mark Nakba with West Bank protests
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, which they call the “catastrophe,” with marches and protests.
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The Office’s best Jewish moment
Funny music, sad life
On an otherwise unremarkable day in 1938, a chubby but charming student at John Burroughs Junior High in Los Angeles “cracked the code of his comic gift and discovered his…
Filmmakers reveal magician’s secretive world
A British journalist recalls how she once sat down at a cafe with the legendary magician, author, historian, actor and, perhaps, the greatest sleight-of-hand artist on the planet in the documentary…
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7 Rules for Perfect Hummus
When was the last time you opened a tub of hummus and swooned? When was the last time a restaurant put a plate of hummus in front of you, and…
Survivor: Irene Rosenberg
“Mommy, I’ll be right back.” Irene Rosenberg — then Irene Grunfeld — said as she was leaving the apartment of her cousin Mancy Weiss, where she and her mother were…
The Divine Wedding and Kiss - Parashat Naso
“O for your kiss! For your love / More enticing than wine, / For your scent and sweet name – For all this they love you. Take me away to…
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What would my Israeli grandmother think?
When I hear about the latest events in Israel – the air strikes on weapons facilities in Syria, the flare-ups over women donning prayer shawls at the Western Wall –…
A hot topic, a great panel, and chance to learn and discuss—immigration at issue
It's a critical time for immigration reform in this country. Washington is getting set to make major changes, the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1980's under President…
State 194: A Documentary About Palestine
Opening this weekend at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 is a very hot-button new documentary called State 194, which follows the recent history of Palestine. Many will approach this film with…
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Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem
Israel approved plans to build 1,500 more Jewish settler homes in East Jerusalem on Monday, an official said, days after provoking international protests against a project for another 3,000 such homes.
Israeli court orders army to find living solution for Palestinian villagers
Israel has 30 days to arrange a living situation for 27 Palestinian families whose homes are set to be demolished, the Israeli Surpeme Court ruled.
Eco-friendly home reveals ‘greener’ pastures ahead [SLIDESHOW]
As scientists continue to warn us that our over-consumption of natural resources is putting too great a strain on our planet, the idea of sustainability — of reducing one’s carbon footprint, recycling and finding a cleaner, greener future — has never been more popular.
State slams new West Bank housing approval
The Obama administration "does not accept the legitimacy" of announced plans for up to 851 new housing units for West Bank settlements.
Palestinians evicted from eastern Jerusalem homes, Jews move in
Jewish families moved into two homes in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood following the eviction of its Palestinian residents.
Conn. legislation will allow mezuzahs on condo doorframes
Connecticut State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney is expected to announce legislation to protect citizens' rights to display religious symbols.
Israeli delegation dedicates housing in eastern Turkey
A delegation from Israel's Defense Ministry visited eastern Turkey to dedicate a student village built with Israeli assistance. The student village in Turkey's Van district was built from 130 prefabricated buildings sent by Israel as a humanitarian gesture following an earthquake three months ago that left some six hundred dead and thousands homeless.
Jerusalem committee approves new Gilo housing
A Jerusalem building committee has approved the construction of 130 new apartments in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
Agreement will prevent outpost razing
The Israeli government and residents of the Ramat Gilad outpost in the West Bank reportedly have reached an agreement that will prevent the destruction of the illegal outpost.
U.N. Security Council states condemn Israel over housing
Members of the U.N. Security Council criticized Israel's decision to construct additional housing in the settlements and the United States for blocking a vote to condemn the action.
Israel publishes tenders for West Bank housing
Israel's Construction and Housing Ministry published tenders for more than 1,000 housing units in communities located in the West Bank near Jerusalem.
Israel provides housing aid to Turkey
Israel sent housing assistance for up to 1,000 people in Turkey afected by two earthquakes that hit the country in October.
Gilo building plan gets go-ahead
Jerusalem's district planning committee has approved a construction plan to build 1,100 housing units in Gilo, a Jewish neighborhood of 40,000 in eastern Jerusalem.
Israel social protesters arrested in first violence
Israeli police arrested some 40 demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, police said, after the first violence seen during weeks of social protests that have called for lower living and housing costs.
Mideast Quartet ‘greatly concerned’ by Israel’s recent settlement plans
The Middle East Quartet said Tuesday that they were alarmed by Israel's latest announcements about new settlement plans in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Barak approves 277 apartments in Ariel settlement
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved a plan to build 277 apartments in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, including 100 for families evacuated from the Gaza Strip.
Israeli plan set to provide more affordable housing
The Israel Lands Administration Council has approved a plan to offer more affordable housing to some Israelis.
Israel approves more eastern Jerusalem housing
Israel's interior minister gave final approval to a project to build 1,600 housing units in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem.
Marches held across Israel as social protests enter fourth week
Protests against the rising costs of living marched on Wednesday in several cities across Israel.
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State Department criticizes Israel over E. Jerusalem housing approval
The Obama administration criticized Israel over the approval of a new housing project in eastern Jerusalem.
Reform movement backing Israeli protests
The Reform movement's international arm is supporting social justice protesters in Israel.
Knesset to meet during recess over protests
Israel's Knesset will meet in a special session on the rash of protests sweeping the nation despite being on summer recess.
Committee to review protesters’ demands set up after mass demonstration
Israel's prime minister established a committee to examine the demands of leaders of the social justice protest movement following one of the largest demonstrations in Israel's history.
With protests, Israelis are seeking the revival of welfare state
The wave of protests sweeping Israel is about much more than the lack of affordable housing: It’s a grass-roots demand for the major redistribution of the nation's wealth.
Housing protests roil Israel as tent cities pop up
On Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv’s version of Park Avenue, a burgeoning tent city has sprung up amid crowded cafes and its canopy of ficus trees.
Over half of Israelis unsatisfied with Netanyahu’s response to housing protest
More than half the population is unhappy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the tent protest, according to a Haaretz poll conducted yesterday. The poll also shows that an overwhelming majority of the public supports the protest and believes it stems from real distress.
Netanyahu responds to housing protests
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to further free up the housing market after thousands of Israelis demonstrated against high living costs.
Israel plans West Bank housing construction
Israel's Construction and Housing Ministry said it would build more than 300 homes in two West Bank settlements.
EU policy chief joins U.S., U.N. in rapping Gilo housing approval
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton joined the United States and the United Nations in condemning a Jerusalem committee's approval of new housing in Gilo. Ashton said Wednesday that she was "deeply disappointed" in the initial approval Monday by the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee of the construction of 942 housing units in Gilo, a residential district in mostly Arab eastern Jerusalem. Other committees already had approved the plan. The units would be built on privately owned land as well as land owned by the Jewish National Fund, Haaretz reported.
Booming housing market in Israel stokes fears of bubble
Soon after Leora’s second child was born and she and her husband began looking for a larger home, Israel's new real estate reality smacked them in the face. Though the couple had bought a two-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv six years earlier that had appreciated to $650,000, more than triple what they paid, they still found themselves priced out of the local market. One apartment in a basement underneath a parking lot was listed at $468,000.
Jewish housing approved for E. Jerusalem
A Jerusalem committee approved construction plans for 13 new apartments for Jewish residents in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The city's municipal planning and construction committee approved private plans for two apartment buildings to be constructed near the tomb of Shimon HaTzadik, a Jewish high priest during the time of the Second Temple. The Interior Ministry gives the final go-ahead to the project.
Housing construction announced for eastern Jerusalem
A Jerusalem municipal committee has approved the construction of more than 1,000 Jewish homes in eastern Jerusalem.
David Myers v. Gary Ratner
Hitler falls victim to sub-prime lending, housing collapse
Prosperity gospel may precede megachurch’s foreclosure
Sukkot on Skid Row
Congregations help the homeless into homes—one family at a time
Imagine LA coordinators work with facility case managers and faith partners to determine the family's needs and set up a plan for independent living.
Condo conversions gone crazy, targeting churches
It will take a miracle to sell your home
Ave Maria and the pizza man’s unanswered prayers
‘Don’t have the house of the Lord in sub-prime loans’
City Voice: Will condo threat inspire unity among seniors?
More than 25 years ago, Los Angeles' senior Jewish renters joined with young progressives and persuaded a reluctant city government to adopt rent control.
American-style retirement for Israel’s seniors
Although old-age homes have always existed in Israel for those who cannot care for themselves, it is only in recent years that the American idea of retiring to a comfortable community of seniors has taken off here.
Mayor implores people of faith to fight homelessness
"Homelessness is curable and we must cure it," Leo Baeck Senior Rabbi Kenneth Chasen said in his welcoming remarks. "Jews know too well the experience of being strangers and outsiders. We have lived in countless places where there were no homes for us."
Yes on Measure H: a measure of humanity
Has anyone else noticed that the only difference between your local Starbucks and your local homeless shelter is the shelter has a faster turnover?
Interfaith dialogue continues locally despite Hathout brouhaha; Sukkot huts inspires home building for homeless
Community Briefs
R.E. Hard Crash? Soft Landing? Bursting Balloon? Leaking Balloon?
The Jewish Journal spoke to Cohen about the recent reversal in the local housing market.
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Like most L.A. residents, we've moved many times over the years. From Santa Monica to Culver City, Marina del Rey and then Westwood, it's not easy to pick up and move 10 or 20 miles with everything you own. At least, that's how we felt until a little over a year ago, when we made the 7,582-mile move to Jerusalem.
Post-Katrina, Jews Raised Funds Fast
Major Jewish organizations have raised more than $30 million to house, feed, educate and relocate thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Program Tries to Sell Youth on Negev
The two-day event over Chanukah, dubbed "Light Up the Negev," was organized by the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF) with the express purpose of "selling" the Negev to Israel's youth.
Negev + Galilee = Israel’s Future
"Real Zionism is to encourage all to move to the Negev and the Galilee," said Transportation Minister Meir Sheetrit, adding that the key to developing the peripheries lies in improving transportation to the center of the country. Efficient transportation, he said, will change the periphery into suburbia.
Russian City Gets New JCC
Anatoly Obermeister, president of the construction and development firm ASTRA, plans to offer the ground floor -- about 6,000 square feet -- of a new housing project in the center of town for use as a Jewish community center that could include a restaurant, clinic, school and other social services.
Groundwork Laid to Evacuate Gaza
Sharon hopes to create sufficient motivation among settlers to evacuate their homes willingly in exchange for generous compensation packages, avoiding violent confrontations like those in Yamit.
Building Dignity
Overlooking bruised thumbs, sore muscles and sunburns, by week's end the construction crew will bubble excitedly over their measurable progress that began with a bare foundation, said Thayne Smith, construction director for Orange County's Habitat for Humanity.
Sharon Defuses Settlement Crisis
Quick action by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon managed to avert a looming crisis over Israeli building in the West Bank, but the tension could resume as Israel comes under pressure to meet its commitments to dismantle illegal settlement outposts and not to expand existing settlements.
Santa Monica Tries to Tread Lightly
How many trees does it take to absorb the emissions from your car's commute? How much land does it take to feed and raise the beef you eat for dinner? How much space on earth does your trash take up?
The city of Santa Monica has taken up the task of answering those questions in "Santa Monica's Ecological Footprint, 1990-2000," released in March. The report measures the amount of land used to produce everyday products and services like electricity, transportation, garbage disposal and housing. That land use is called the ecological footprint, and it can be measured individually or citywide.
Tull Lends a Hand to the Homeless
She first started worrying about those on the streets in 1980, and now, 24 years later, Tanya Tull is fighting against a real estate boom that prices the low-wage earners out of the housing market and federal aid cuts that exacerbate the problem.
Political Journal
Compassionate conservatism seems to have finally hit rock bottom.
Community Briefs
The Philadelphia-based Jewish charity Shefa Fund has started its first major West Coast philanthropic work this spring with the "Los Angeles TZEDEC Initiative," which supports low-income loans for homeowners in poor neighborhoods.
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