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Community Profile: Gerald Bubis

Julie Gruenbaum Fax September 12, 2012

Gerald B. Bubis is 88, and he knows there are things he’ll never do again. He’ll never travel to Israel again, for one, and after 46 trips, that’s a tough one to swallow. Then there’s the fact that this author and/or editor of 12 books and 200 articles on serving the Jewish community now has a tremor in his hand that prevents him from putting pen to paper. He also can’t drive anymore, and he can’t stand up long enough to wash dishes.

Where are the great American Jewish leaders?

Jewish Journal May 4, 2011

We are living in a troubling and dangerous time, a time when we need courageous and insightful leaders more than at any point since the Holocaust. We are facing a potentially existential crisis for Israel and ultimately, I believe, for Jewish people worldwide. Yet our leaders for the most part have not responded in a forceful way. Those among us who understand what is at stake must immediately light a fire under our current leaders. At the same time, we need to rethink the process of how we select our leaders and what we expect of them.\n

In the lions’ den: Federation women cap week in the Big Easy

Jewish Journal November 16, 2010

Just down the road from where the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America had concluded a day earlier, more than a thousand of the federation system’s most generous women found a philanthropic sanctuary of their own.

Kerry’s Heritage

Jennifer Anne Perez November 13, 2003

Seven years ago, then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discovered that more than a dozen of her relatives had perished in the Nazi concentration camps because they, like Albright, were born Jewish.

Albright\’s discovery raised an even larger question: How many other American leaders have actually been of Jewish descent, but because of records and memories eroded by time, they never knew it?

In the case of Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry — thought by many to be a Boston Brahmin — the answer to the question is a convoluted one. It follows a path from a small Czech village near the Polish border to a long-forgotten suicide in a posh Boston hotel. It is the story of a young man who abandoned his Jewish faith, his nation and his name to pursue the American dream.

A Few Jews Focus on Props, Too

David Finnigan October 2, 2003

With a few notable exceptions, Jewish politicians, activists and community leaders are getting into the controversies over Propositions 53 and 54 late and lackadaisically, having focused most of their attention and fundraising efforts on the recall election.

Proposition 54, The Racial Privacy Initiative (RPI), backed by University of California regent Ward Connerly, bans the state from classifying people according to race, ethnicity, color, or national origin.

Building the Future

Rachel Brand April 3, 2003

When Jonathan Schulman went on a mission to Israel 1995, he said his life was forever changed, because he started getting involved. \”I got engaged because there were opportunities for me to build on that experience,\” said Schulman, director of the recently established Young Leadership Program of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Schulman, who is in his mid-30s, hoped that the other 61 Los Angeles young Jewish leaders would be similarly inspired at the United Jewish Community\’s (UJC) Young Leadership Regional Conference, which took place March 7-9 at San Francisco\’s Westin St. Francis Hotel.

Pumping Up the Bottom Line

Marc Ballon February 13, 2003

On Sunday, Feb. 23, 800 volunteers from across the Southland will staff the phones from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. to raise money for the Jewish
Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Shifting Gears

Michael Aushenker September 19, 2002

"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.

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