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Eruv expected up for shabbat

After being disrupted by construction on the 405 Freeway, the Los Angeles Community Eruv was expected to be back in operation for the Shabbat beginning at sundown on June 21, Howard Witkin, a community member who oversees the eruv’s maintenance, told the Journal on June 17.

Dwelling together: Parashat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)

My father, originally from a small-town farm in Kansas, converted to Judaism when I was a young child. You can imagine that my seder table looks a lot like many American seder tables. Ours hosts a grand mixture of people — religiously, ethnically, socially and politically diverse. My congregational family at Temple Israel of Hollywood reflects the same. The Jewish communities I occupy are, at their core, wonderfully varied.

Judy Gold: Coming out as a sitcom addict


Flamenco’s healing power

As her mother’s yahrzeit approaches, a middle-aged woman undergoes a crisis of the soul in the play “Heart Song,” currently at The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood. The woman, Rochelle (Pamela Dunlap), then joins a flamenco class and experiences the transformative power of that dance form.

The Power of Language: Cultivating Positive Emotions


Superman is a Jewish Fantasy


Loving Aunt Ruth: Recipes for a Life Well-Lived


June 18, 2013


Perfectly Imperfect


An Old-New Way of Looking at Judaism


Father’s Day and Forgiveness


It’s Happened!


It’s Happened!


Sinai and American Efforts for Peace - D’var Torah Hukat


Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Chukat with Rabbi Sharon Brous


Sportin’ Life was right, but what about that Torah tune?


‘Because I say so’: Parashat Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)

“This is the decree [chukat] of the Torah” (Numbers 19:2). Isn’t it amazing how, as we get older, our parents seem to become wise?

Getting ready for baby

Rabbi Julia Weisz found herself in a bit of a conundrum when she became an expectant mother.

Jewish Lists: What They Say About Us


Louis Kwechansky and his Chocolate Factory: A Father’s Day Tribute from Alex Kwechansky


How to explain LDS religious terms to Jews


The Inner Korach - Then and Now


Priest discusses Holocaust documentation efforts

The Rev. Patrick Desbois, secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism and adviser to the Vatican on the Jewish religion, appeared at Wilshire Boulevard Temple on May 22 to discuss his effort to locate the mass graves of the approximately 1.5 million Jews who were murdered in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944.

Respect, inclusion and tolerance at the Wall

'There are no villains in this story.” Those were the calming words of Natan Sharansky, renowned human rights champion and Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Blessings For Beloved Pets - Part II


When Kerry says ‘both sides,’ AIPAC says the Palestinians

John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, is approaching full throttle in his bid to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. In a speech yesterday to the American Jewish Committee, Kerry said Israel should still regard the P.A. as a partner – an implied rebuke to members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government who have suggested the authority has outlived its negotiating usefulness.

Drawing new interest to the Talmud

Last August, in conjunction with the beginning of a new seven-and-a-half year cycle of “daf yomi”—the daily study of a double page of the Babylonian Talmud that is observed by tens of thousands of Jews worldwide—Nicholls inaugurated an online “Draw Yomi” project that day-by-day results in a hand-drawn response to what she has studied.

June 4, 2013


Do Prayers for Chocolate Work?


Did You Know That Louis Armstrong Wore a Star of David?


Andrew Greeley - A Demographer of His Religion and of Ours


War for the Soul of the World


Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Shelach Lecha with Rabbi Michael Melchior


Can Google Glass transform Jewish life?

Over the past few weeks, strangers have begun stopping high school computer science teacher Chaim Cohen on the street. A few accuse him of recording them without their knowledge. Even fewer blame him for all of society’s ills.

A failure of imagination: Parashat Shelach Lecha (Numbers 13:1-15:41)

The imagination is a stretch of highway that bends through the universe. Its lanes unmarked, its exits limitless, yet it is, nevertheless, the shortest road to anywhere.

Survivor: Charlotte Seeman

Charlotte Seeman — then Charlotte Leiter — spotted the barbed-wire fence ahead. She and her companions — a young woman from Vienna as well as the woman’s boyfriend and uncle — climbed over and continued walking. It was a cold night in December 1939, and they had crossed the German border near the intersection of Belgium and Holland.

Women of the Wall and the Fire on the Mountain


Q&A with Israeli MK Stav Shaffir

On March 12, Stav Shaffir, a first-time Knesset Member from the Labor Party, joined Women of the Wall in prayer at the Western Wall. Despite threats from several Orthodox groups and attempted arrests by police, the group prayed.

The camel’s nose and the Torah’s tent


This week in power: Biden, Lapid budget, Poland, Oklahoma cleanup


Garcetti, Feuer, Galperin: A new era of Jewish leadership in L.A.?

Los Angeles chose Eric Garcetti as its first elected Jewish mayor in a number of political contests on Tuesday that reflected the city’s diversity, as well as its numerous variations of Jewishness. (In a historical footnote, one Bernard Cohn served as the appointed mayor of Los Angeles for a few weeks in 1878.)

Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’

Vice President Joe Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception that American and Jewish cultures are intertwined.

Rabbis to Boy Scouts: Lift ban on gay members

More than 500 rabbis and cantors urged the Boy Scouts of America to drop its ban on homosexual members when the youth group’s National Council convenes in Dallas this week.

What would my Israeli grandmother think?


Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Naso with Rabbi Abraham Cooper


Thank You Rabbi Kurtz


The Divine Wedding and Kiss - Parashat Naso


Cellist’s path to Judaism

When cellist Lynn Harrell would play “Kol Nidre” at his synagogue on Yom Kippur, he felt more than the notes and the melody. It was through the music that he discovered he wanted to become a Jew.

On the Chocolate Trail


Character reference: Wendy Greuel

I have known Wendy Greuel for almost 30 years, since she was a young UCLA graduate working for Mayor Tom Bradley.

State, Religion, and Women of the Wall- an Interview with MK Stav Shaffir


Shavuot 2013 - We all stand at Sinai


This week from Israel


Revelations and Revolutions: Thinking about Shavuot


Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Bamidbar with Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie


Wandering, Romantic Love, Transcendence, and Shavuot - D’var Torah B’midbar


The True State of the Western Wall Compromise


Q&A with Rabbi Ed Feinstein

On May 11, Rabbi Ed Feinstein, senior rabbi at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, will be feted for his two decades of service to the synagogue. He talks in this edited version of an interview about changes in synagogue life, his theology and what he prays for.

What Jerusalem Day means to me


How to become a Jew

There are a variety of options for how to begin the process, but all involve study with a rabbi. Some people study with an individual rabbi for a period of time, and other people enroll in group classes designed especially for converts.