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Opinion: A time for truth
It is time for another Durban Conference. No, Im not asking for a repeat of the U.N.-sponsored festival of Jew-hatred that took place in South Africa in 2001.
Giving hope and help to L.A.s Iranian Jews
Earlier this year, after nearly two decades of providing counseling and psychological help to local Iranians for free or at reduced rates, Shadee Toomari, a local Iranian-Jewish licensed clinical psychologist, formally established the communitys first nonprofit mental health treatment clinic.
Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger does it again Disappoint that is
‘The end of an era’: Clintons, Katzenberg, Pelosi pay tribute to Edie Wasserman
Israel wants peace - friend request pending [VIDEO]
Israel's attempts at making friends.
Jews by choice
There are a lot of fun things about being Jewish: Adam Sandler, Purim, having an opinionated Jewish grandmother, Israel (most of the time), Chanukah.
Hikind, prominent N.Y. Dem, wont endorse Weprin to replace Weiner
Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jew, announced that he will not support the Democratic candidate to replace former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
Australias oldest Jew dies at 110
Mary Rothstein, Australias oldest Jew, has died at age 110.
Supermarket Memories…
Summer Rules are not meant to be followed, at least in my house
Obvious vs. the-Not-So-Obvious!
Jury Duty!
Jewish Men Don’t Cheat! Ha! And Ashley Madison is a Dating Site!
Breast is Best - Give me a Break!
Protesting in the U.S.A. - A waste of time?
Yom HaAtzmaut special: California on Hebrew [VIDEO]
KassemJEW is on the streets of Westwood to talk to Angelenos about Israel Independence Day. Happy Yom Ha'Atzmaut!
We got Apples and Oranges and Pears, Oh My!
A Soviet Passover…
Brooklyn Jew played key role for Pope John Paul II
When hundreds of thousands of people converge on the Vatican for the beatification of Pope John Paul II on May 1, a Brooklyn-born Jewish orchestra conductor will have an honored place among them.
French Jew attacked outside synagogue
A 21-year-old student was severely beaten near his synagogue in southern France after acknowledging to his attackers that he was Jewish.
My evening at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honoring “Hot in Cleveland”
Everyone is Suddenly Irish on March 17th!
California on Purim [VIDEO]
KassemJEW on the streets for Purim. What do you know about Purim?
To Be or Not to Be, Rich…
‘Who is a Jew’ crisis moves into aliyah sphere
Thomas Dohlan, who converted to Judaism in an Orthodox Canadian beit din, never anticipated that Israels Interior Ministry might question his Jewishness and block his bid to make aliyah. But thats what is happening because of what appears to be a new policy that gives Israels Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate, and not the Interior Ministry, the ultimate authority to decide which Orthodox converts are kosher enough for immigration purposes.
My Interview with the Department of Homeland Security!
Great Doctor must not exist!
Gangsta rapper Shyne, now an Orthodox Jew, plans comeback
It was early on during his difficult, isolated years in prison that the former gangsta rapper known as Shyne decided to formally take on the laws of Judaism as his own. Shyne, who legally changed his name in prison from Jamaal Barrows to Moses Levi -- Moses is one of his favorite biblical heroes, and Levi is for the Levites who were musicians during Temple times -- remembers the initial skepticism he encountered from prison rabbis at New Yorks Rikers Island, where he was first incarcerated, and the other prison rabbis that would follow. "In prison culture, everyone is trying to make a scam, everyone is a con artist, so who is this dark-skinned guy they wondered? Does he just want the Jewish food?" asks Levi, now cloaked in the black garb of a Chasidic Jew and living in Jerusalem.
There is nothing like seeing your kid singing Christmas Carols!
Hypochondriacs are We!
Not Your American Summer Camp…
A Jew in Turkey
Preparing for my trip to Istanbul for an interfaith meeting, I was nervous about the challenging encounters that awaited me. Convened by the World Council of Churches, the meetings focus was, Christian Self-Understanding in the Context of Judaism. Two dozen Christian theologians would reflect on how Christians understand themselves and their tradition, with their relationships to Jews and Judaism in mind. I was one of three Jews invited to serve as participant-observers in this intra-Christian conversation to bring Jewish ears and sensibilities, to identify Christian blind spots, and to reflect back what was unbearably painful.
The saviour of Sarajevo barred for being a Jew
Jakob Finci's Jewishness was an asset in the Bosnian war he was a neutral party who helped 3,000 people flee the country. But now his religion means he is barred from public office
Judge denies Easter Mass for Jewish girl
A court in Chicago has ruled that a father may not take his Jewish daughter to Catholic Mass on Easter.
Joseph Reyes grabbed headlines when he took his daughter to church and had her baptized despite a temporary restraining order filed by his estranged wife that bars him from exposing their daughter to anything but the Jewish faith.
A self-respecting Jew in Hollywood
Rob Kutner is a veteran comedy writer for The Daily Show and author of the tongue-in-cheek Apocalypse How (Running Press, 2008). Having just returned to Los Angeles to work for The Tonight Show With Conan OBrien, he talks about being an observant Jew in Hollywood, why George W. Bush is more fun to write about than President Obama and why he doesnt believe you ever really make it in Hollywood.
Pop music’s leader of the pack, Ellie Greenwich, dies at 68
Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote some of pop music's most enduring songs, including Chapel of Love, Be My Baby and Leader of the Pack, died Wednesday, according to her niece. She was 68.
One Day
I have seen the Jewish future its loud, and hypnotic, and it reeks of pot.
The Sentencing of Bernie Madoff
Help Honor Stephen Tyrone Johns
Stodgy Jews
Microsoft Word: Anti-Semitic?
Jew Graffiti Confounds Experts
Brazilian Jews Rally Against Intolerance
Thousands of Brazilian Jews rallied to protest next month's scheduled visit to their country by Iran's president and to remember the Holocaust.
The Real Madoff Scandal: Charitable Hoarding
Of all the shocks of the Bernie Madoff heist, perhaps none was more stunning than the list of victims. Among them were several Jewish foundations and many of our communitys most prominent nonprofits. The losses were staggering, and in some cases crippling.
‘West Wing’ Actor Ron Silver Dies at 62
Move over Madoff, L.A. gets its own indicted philanthropist
National Hug a Jew Day!!!
Rahm Emanuel, Obamas pick for Chief of Staff, is tough, direct and wedded to his Jewish roots
President-elect Barack Obamas pick of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) will put a tough, proven political operator at the center of a new Administration. It also raises the profile of a Chicago Jewish family firmly rooted in the worlds of Hollywood, medicine, politics . . . and Judaism.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel dead at 96
" . . . My mother came from Bialystock, near the Russo-Polish border, a very cosmopolitan town decimated by the Nazis. My father came from a suburb [and was] a tailor. Chicago is the biggest Polish population of any city outside of Warsaw . . . "
Republican David Zucker makes stand with ‘American Carol’
Paul Newman—Hollywood’s most famous half-Jew—dies at 83 [VIDEO]
My VideoGuide to Los Angeles
Bloggers expose neocon secret: Sarah Palin is a Jewess
Not your average ‘schlub’—a memoir
Max Gross, by his own admission, used to be your average schlub: He sported an unkempt Jewfro, the bottoms of his jeans were tattered and he'd gamely put a good burger before a diet.
Allies and foes scrape through Palin bio for Jewish material
Palin is likeable enough that she got props from Ethan Berkowitz, the Jewish former minority leader in the Alaska House of Representatives who appears poised to become the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives since Nick Begich disappeared in a snowstorm in 1972.
Natalie Portman honored at Venice Film Festival for humanitarian work
VIDEO: JTA’s Wednesday Convention Summary
Eric Fingerhut and Ron Kampeas summarize the jewish events of the day at the election, while attending a jstreet function in downtown Denver.
Democratic platform sticks close to Jewish positions
When it comes to the Middle East and Sen. Barack Obama's Democratic Party platform, things are staying pretty much the same -- which, in this case, is the kind of change pro-Israel activists can believe in.
Obama camp to raise domestic issues in bid for Jewish vote
Obama aides say they will be increasingly pushing the idea that Barack Obama, and not John McCain, is in line with Jewish voters on economic policy, reproductive rights, church-state separation and the Supreme Court.
VIDEO: Heeb Olympics 2008—Gefilte Fish Wrestling
Four modern-day gladiators do battle for the gold (a lifetime supply of Gold's mustard) in the Heeb Olympics
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