Ed Guthman leaves legacy of fighting injustice

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on September 24, 2008

When Ed Guthman died Aug. 30 at the age of 89, the Los Angeles Jewish community lost one of its most distinguished members

Eating Bambi, Zell again, Bergson, broken heart

Published on August 13, 2008

" . . . Isn't it time that every Jewish child take at least one course in Herzl? If he isn't the modern father of the Jewish People, who is? For without Herzl's many contributions, the Holocaust would have excluded any chance of a Jewish state in Israel . . ."

Sell it, Sam

By Rob Eshman
Published on July 30, 2008

First they came for the Outdoor section, and I said nothing. Then they combined and demoted the Opinion and Book Review sections, and I said nothing.

Troubling (L.A.) Times

By Gina Nahai
Published on July 30, 2008

Maybe all the layoffs and buyouts have cut just a little too deeply into the newsroom, or Mr. Zell is purposely dumbing down his newspaper in hopes of making it more profitable

Fake L.A. Times: Polygamists pen TV deal

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 30, 2008

Don’t underestimate the power of the Jewish newspaper

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on July 23, 2008

Sophisticated Los Angeles Jews don't have to turn to a Jewish newspaper for political advice or for guidance through the pitfalls of American society.

The L.A. Times ‘frames’ the Presidential race

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on July 16, 2008

This assertion, which is totally irrelevant to the campaign of 2008, leads to a source saying that McCain would definitely not represent the third Bush term.

The L.A. Times ‘frames’ the Presidential race

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on July 14, 2008

The Los Angeles Bagels

By Marty Kaplan
Published on July 9, 2008

The Los Angeles Bagels

By Marty Kaplan
Published on July 9, 2008

To Sam Zell, however, running the Times, as well the other papers he bought when he acquired the Tribune Co., isn't a public trust, and its stewardship doesn't include serving the public interest, no more than would running a bagel joint.

Welcome to South Korea— enjoy our gratuitously anti-Semitic comic books!

By JewishJournal.com
Published on March 25, 2008

Rock the vote music video, Jordanian style

By JewishJournal.com
Published on November 21, 2007

The Armenian Genocide debate pits moral values against realpolitik

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 3, 2007

All the attention is flattering, but its underlying cause confronts the Jewish community with choices that -- perhaps oversimplified -- pits its moral values and sympathies against the realpolitik of American and Israeli policymakers.

Reasons to book it to UCLA

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on April 26, 2007

Political provocateur Gore Vidal, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, industrialist Lee Iacocca, fantasy maven Ray Bradbury, Los Angeles crime novelist Lee Ellroy and Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua. Add more than 700 additional authors, readings, performances and panels, and you get a sense of the scope of the 12th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- the largest event of its kind on the West Coast -- which will take place April 28 and 29 at UCLA.

Sam Zell is one tough Jew

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on April 12, 2007

Happily for them, most of the old-time Los Angeles anti-Semites who used to hang out at the downtown California Club are either dead or too old to care that a Jew is on the verge of owning the L.A. Times.

City Voice: L.A. Times faces tough job

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on November 16, 2006

One day at lunch with a group of reporters and editors, Dave Laventhol, then the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was musing that journalists had become elitist,
separated from their communities, maybe even too educated.

Letters to the Editor

Published on August 24, 2006

Letters to the Editor.