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The end of the goys
Lindsay Lohan converting to Judaism?
What Rick Warren said at Sinai Temple; it wasn’t ‘Jesus’
Randy Pausch’s last lecture links morality and purpose
"Brick walls are there for a reason," wrote the late Dr. Randy Pausch, author of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture."
New York bigwigs pay $10,000 for private Torah tutoring
Torah Judaism has no concept of ‘ex-gay’
Since 2002, when I started becoming open about my personal religious choice to stop having sex with men, liberals on gay issues have repeatedly accused me of being a Jewish "ex-gay.
Jews booze, too
Britney, Ivanka, Naomi—News Shticker hot celebrity edition
Rabbi: Saudi king’s invitation for dialogue ‘must be seized’
Barack Obama: Shabbos goy
Israel’s growing community of Orthodox lesbians
A Jew argues for Sharia in England
Tattoos, Jews and swine shots too
Topless DJ rocks the Haredim
Crypto-Jews who believe in Jesus
Mugshots and police uniforms for Orthodox Jewish women
Kabbalah ruined A-Rod, former trainer says
Was Jesus’ resurrection culturally expected?
LA Times: High gas prices forcing Jews to walk on Sabbath
Once wealthy and numerous, Baghdad’s Jews at the edge
Jumping for Jesus in a house filled with Jews
Why Jews, in theory, don’t drink
Getting furry for the Omer
Honorary wandering Jew: Barack Obama?
Survival hinges on being light unto nations
It's impossible to augur the future of the Jewish people. It can only be summed up in two words: "I hope."
New generation has a new take on Israel
Earlier this spring, David Weiner, a 32-year-old social studies curriculum publisher from Los Angeles, went on an unlikely pairing of back-to-back missions to Israel.
More Ruth Wisse, Jews and Power
Einstein found the Bible ‘primitive, childish’
The lost members of the tribe in Cuba
Messianic Jew causes boycott call from Bible Quiz
Halacha is just a click away at online yeshiva
Like other virtual learning and videoconferencing, Web Yeshiva students see and hear each other and the instructor in the virtual classroom.
Tribal Affairs: Boxing’s Golden Boy was Jewish
Redux: ‘The true meaning of Passover’
Local students go to lobby in D.C., seniors party at ‘senior prom’
Local Students Lobby at the Capitol
A group of University Synagogue religious school students paid a springtime visit to Washington, D.C., where they
Voice of reason in a sea of insanity, Jewish Dodgers, Prager, archaeologists, politicians and peace
letters to the editor
Briefs: Governator opens new Saban Free Clinic, Weisenthal Center pressures Swiss on Iran deal
News Briefs
Books: Leaving Russia behind—somewhat
When Perestroika came in 1985, anti-Jewish feeling in Russia became even more overt than it had been during the Soviet era.
Case of the missing matzo, and not the afikomen
Strange translations of the Four Questions
Dodgers strikeout adding Canter’s to Koufax
Seven synagogues torched in Tehran
Humanistic Judaism Society ponders growth question
In the 1960s, when "God is dead" debates were fashionable on college campuses, graffiti scrawled on a Harvard dorm wall proclaimed, "God isn't dead. He just doesn't want to get involved."
A porn-free Passover
Beckham’s boy to enter Jewish day school
‘Family Guy’ finds ‘Jewish’ doc
The best rabbis in all the land
Rev. Lee and the true meaning of Passover
Canada: Adieu, Juifs
Explaining the growth of Republican Jews
Lessons from ‘Gentlemen of the Road’
Reform leader asks Jews to abandon Hagee
Hillel opens its doors to non-Jews
Jewish pugs and holy considerations
Woody Allen sues American Apparel for rabbi ad
Jewish power in Long Beach
‘The Purim Hangover’
Tennessee’s Jewish Volunteer
And now, the fake news
Why Jews should vote for Obama
‘Jewno’
Chief rabbi: animal Nazis might be anti-Semites
Commentary: Order now for your free ‘world terrorism wall map’
Blasphemy: Moses was trippin’ at Sinai
‘The Nazi in the hot tub’
Which Jews get to decide the fate of Jerusalem
Jewish boys team may forfeit Shabbat playoff
‘Pornographic’ Jesus sculpture protested at London Shabbat service
LA’s mayor a member of the Tribe?
Traditionalists: ‘Pope has felt obliged to change the very venerable prayer for the Jews’
A Muslim at Hebrew College
‘Jews should chill out’
Lily Isaacs, from Jewish folk to Christian Gospel
How Jewish hawks won the advocacy war
Beloved rabbi says unbelievably regrettable things
SWM seeks ‘every single other Jew’
‘The beard is off-limits’
More on ‘Fargo’ in Sitka
Finkelstein welcomed to LA by Jewish Defense League
Coen Brothers to adapt Chabon’s “Yiddish Policemen”
Lantos, Congress’ only Holocaust survivor, dies
Brother, can you spare a few grand?
ZOA expands its enemies list
VideoJew: Jews Choose 2008
Orthodox rabbi: Vote pro-family or don’t vote
Clinton and Obama split California Jews, too
A New York Jew who does heart Huckabee
A shiksa’s quest to destory the Jewish community
Jews: ‘Voting as if our lives depend upon it’
‘Politics sort of is the Jewish religion’
Lieberman riding McCain’s coattails
Murder Inc. and Jewish toughs
World Jewry should have no veto on Jerusalem’s fate
While every Jew in the world (along with every other person) certainly has the right to express an opinion about how the Jerusalem issue should be resolved, the State of Israel alone should make that important decision, since it involves the security of the state and its people.
Solar panels, radio station keep Jewish camps current
It was a given that Benjy Rabin, 9, would spend part of his summers at Camp Ramah as soon as he was old enough. His father is a Ramah alum, and so are his older brother and sister.
The Bible for dummies—and experts
In "How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now" (Free Press, $35) -- which recently won the 2007 Jewish book of the year prize of the National Jewish Book Awards -- Kugel's interest is not only in what the text says, but in what a modern reader is to make of it.
The search for biblical history
‘I am Jewish’
Jews with swords: ‘Gentleman of the Road’
Program helps grandparents nurture interfaith grandkids
Bettina Kurowski is the chair of the 2008 fundraising campaign of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and active in her Conservative synagogue. She's also a grandmother of three young grandchildren. They give her great naches, or joy, she says, but she's also worried -- the children's father is not Jewish, the kids are being raised in an interfaith home and Kurowski, for all her Jewish involvement, is not sure what role she should play in passing on the Jewish heritage that is so dear to her.
Insider: UJC a ‘stumbling bureaucracy’
Those godless Jews
Six degrees of separation: Obama and anti-Semitism
It’s time to (re)open dialogue with Islam
I am a Jew of Islam. Not an Arab Jew, mind you, since that term makes as much sense as Slavic or Baltic or Arian Jew, but a Jew of Islam. It is not only because in my family's veins runs the blood of people who lived in Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, nor because among my congregants there are natives of Bahrain and Indonesia.
Stumbling through my bat mitzvah
My bat mitzvah was an unmitigated disaster.
I'd hoped the guests would be as taken as I was with my dress, first high heels and the orange and yellow petit fours at the Kiddush.
Hey Karl Rove: What happened to two Jews, three opinions?
In defense of Jewish journalism
Messianic rabbi: Olmert should be ‘hanged from the gallows’
Latkes and vodkas with Germany’s Jews
Jewish newspapers in focus, sort of
Lisa Loeb writing for The Forward
Israel’s ‘non-Jewish Jews’
McCain-Lieberman ticket hot with the Orthodox
‘Remembering Greenberg’
‘Our Worst Ex-President’
Spinka leader charged with tax fraud
Cheryl Hines, ‘the accidental shiksa’
My interview with author Michael Chabon
Interview with an atheist lobbyist
Hollywood goes to the Holy Land
Labor Zionist ideals live on at Gilboa
In real life, Leo Goldberg doesn't dance and sing.
But at Camp Gilboa, where he's spent summers for the past 9 years, Leo Goldberg dances. And he sings. A lot -- and loudly.
The better soda: latke or Christmas ham?
Esther on Auslander
A modern-day Chanukah miracle along the Gaza border
Orthodox ‘YMCA’ video
Don’t step on Jelvis’ ‘Blue Suede Yarmulke’
Holy adult circumcision, Abraham!
Raising your dog Jewish
The massive menorah and the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas tree’
‘Chanukah is not a celebration of multiculturalism or tolerance’
World Series of Dreidel spin-off
Hitchens: ‘To Hell with Hanukkah’
‘Merry Christmas’ runs contrary to Chanukah
Chanukah: The Not Christmas
‘The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses’
Tod and God’s Chanukah adventure
Gangster Jews and the bid to defy weakness
$100 Chanukah gelt box
Friedlander’s Holocaust memories
My chance at stardom
Nice try Rudy, but you’re no Jewliani
Kosher clothing
Silverman on Silverman on blacks and Jews
What’s so good about Judaism and the Boy Scouts?
JJ editor: ‘Writers Strike is a Jewish issue’
Be like God
The author of "God's To-Do List," Dr. Ron Wolfson, is one of the shining lights of the Conservative movement, and thinks that a huge dose of simple, practical advice can transform Judaism's words of wisdom into action for everyday life.
The many sides of Bob Dylan
In its own oddball way, "I'm Not There" is among the best pieces of music criticism I've seen or read on the subject of Bob Dylan. It is a jigsaw puzzle, with its various pieces scattered around the table by a deft, if quirky hand. It's a film that rewards close attention and deserves repeated viewings. The film's one significant omission is the place of Judaism in Dylan's life.
Borats Anonymous
The Forward 50
Briefs: Interfaith call to action from Reform organization, Conservatives reflect on future
Briefs.
Authors explain Jewish influences on their works
The Jewish Journal invited writers who will be featured at Sunday's Festival of Books to answer the simple, essential question that every Jewish writer is often asked: "What Jewish sources -- ideas, writings, traditions -- inspire you, and how do they show up in your work?" The following show that there is no easy answer to what defines a Jewish author, but there is no question that there's much to draw upon within the faith.
On the picket line with Jewish screenwriters
Rabbi will pay for love
The ‘Jewish hustler’ gets some real green
Jerry loses the funny
Zell: ‘Being Jewish means that you’re vulnerable forever’
JTA editor thinks NYT Magazine has a ‘Jewish problem’
Quote of the day
The self-proclaimed Nazi hunter
‘The New Wars of Religion’
Visiting Israel brings feeling of really coming home
This past summer, I stepped off the plane and felt my feet touch the ground of our homeland for the first time. I was home. For 12 days in Israel, my family and I explored the land, went to museums and had a chance to connect with our spirituality and Judaism.
TV: Suze Orman isn’t all about the money—she has a spiritual side, too
Despite the fact that Orman has not been associated with Judaism in any traditional sense for decades, this search for purpose continues to inform her work. She says she is still a spiritually inquisitive person and that she has never stopped contemplating the concept of God.
The study of ‘Jewgenics’
Young Israel rabbi reportedly mugged
Muslim leader: Western Wall part of mosque
A neocon scion set to takeover Commentary
Quote for the ages
Blaming Jews for killing Jesus
Who will love the dead?
Thank heavens for hot pastrami
Quote of the day
Six-figure Persian weddings
Interfaith panel wrestles with troubling texts:<BR>Will the real 'chosen' please rise?
Scholars, clergy and seminarians gathered this week at the Luxe Hotel to discuss troubling passages and ideas in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and ways of understanding them in modern times, as part of "Troubling Traditions: Wrestling With Problem Passages," a conference co-sponsored by the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University.
Springfield: sister-city of Chelm
Stanley Gold: ‘I don’t get ulcers - I give ulcers’
Conversations with a Pharisee and a Christian
Major Jewish philanthropist creates investigative journalism nonprofit
Rudy talks the the talk with Jewish hawks
If I stopped shaving and lived like an Israelite
The Forward wants to hire Joe Torre
Jewish power dominates ‘Vanity Fair 100’
Coulter Chronicles: More on Jewish ‘perfecting’
Coulter: Jews need ‘perfecting’
Turkey: Jews and Armenians aim to ‘defame’
The capricious God of the Psalms
Dawkins’ Jew slander has hurt atheists
French priest uncovers the horrors of the Holocaust in Ukraine
Dawkins: Jews ‘monopolize American foreign policy’
Cardinal: Jews should change Talmud
Sony Pictures CEO’s Jewish journey
Jack Abramoff the bully
Forget Passover—The Debate’s Over
The talented Mr. Katz
Looking at the model of ‘Jewish power’
The allure of atheism for a liberal Jew
A love song for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In defense of Madonna
Many of those holier-than-thous who are bad-mouthing Madonna were once themselves on the wrong side of the tracks before they rediscovered Judaisim
Sukkahs are for sleeping
We were intent on doing what our Ashkenazi forebearers, who lived in inhospitably cold climates, could not do. We were intent on doing Sukkot the way the Talmud prescribes, meaning 24/7, including spending nights there.
Latino pastors celebrate Sukkot and Israel in Westwood
About 200 Latino evangelical Christians were guests for a Sukkot meal and Israeli flag ceremony hosted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Israeli consulate. The event was designed to strengthen relations between Jews and a specific segment of the Latino community -- evangelicals.
A porn star and ‘Jew forts’ on Sukkot
Latinos who love Israel, maybe Jews too
Nixon’s Jewish paranoia
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Featured Stories
Food
Eating Bambi (recipe included)
Most of the anti-Semitic mail I get these days doesn't concern Israel, Hollywood or even the threat of a nuclear war in the Middle East -- it's about meat.
Music
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory
One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.
Torah Portion
How to comfort and be comforted
Parshat Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) God tells Moses that although he's faithfully led His people through the desert these past 40 years, and although the Jews are now standing at the very border of the Holy Land, Moses himself will never be allowed entry, and will die and
Religion
Randy Pausch’s last lecture links morality and purpose
"Brick walls are there for a reason," wrote the late Dr. Randy Pausch, author of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture."
Opinion
The Great Awakening
The Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will hold back-to-back public conversations this Saturday, Aug. 16, with the two presumptive presidential
candidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. The conversations, on the topic of "Compassion and Leadership," will be
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