Ahead of March meetings, Israel and the U.S. close ranks on Iran

by Ron Kampeas, JTA
Published on February 7, 2012

It�s one of those coincidences too tempting to believe is a coincidence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is delivering a speech to AIPAC about what should happen next with Iran and likely meeting with President Obama to discuss Iran options on the same day that the International Atomic Energy Agency convenes in Vienna to consider a report about Iran.

Single, Happy, Hopeful & Strutting

By Ilana Angel
Published on November 30, 2011

All the time in the world

By Mrs. Shoshana F
Published on July 21, 2008

Koreatown residents visit the synagogue next door

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on March 8, 2007

Korean Americans and Jews gathered at Wilshire Boulevard Temple to dialogue about mutual understanding and to discuss conditions in the formerly Jewish Wilshire Center district, which is now home to the largest Korean population outside of Seoul.

FBI Stings Seen as Part of Policy ‘War’

By Edwin Black
Published on January 13, 2005

Last June, leading neoconservative Richard Perle received an unexpected phone call at his home. It was Larry Franklin calling. Franklin is the veteran Iran specialist in the Pentagon's Near East South Asia office and the key Iraq War planner who had been pressured by the FBI into launching a series of counterintelligence stings. Perle, a former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, was an architect of the 2003 Iraq War.

Franklin, who never had phoned before, asked Perle to "convey a message to Chalabi" in Iraq, according to sources aware of the call. Ahmad Chalabi is the embattled president of the Iraqi National Congress. He is currently at the vortex of a Pentagon-intelligence community conflict over pre- and post-war policy, but is still endorsed by neoconservatives, such as Perle.

Something about Franklin's unexpected call struck Perle as "weird," according to the sources. Why was Franklin calling?

Anti-Zionism Views Reach UC Riverside

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 6, 2003

An inflammatory poster equating Zionism with Nazism at the University of California's Riverside (UCR) campus has mobilized Jewish students and faculty, drawn strong condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and cautious responses from university officials.

A Rude Awakening in Spain

By Amanda Susskind
Published on September 4, 2003

We are trekking through Toledo, Spain, happily reverting for a moment to a band of carefree tourists when we are halted in our tracks by a sight we had not expected.

June Gloom

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 12, 2003

Two steps forward, three steps back.

That is the definition of any Middle East peace process, and the most important question now is whether President Bush, who very publicly committed himself to a "road map to peace" last month, will tough it out.

L.A. Rabbis, Jackson Push for Peace

By Julie G Fax
Published on August 15, 2002

Rabbis Steven Jacobs and Leonard Beerman from Los Angeles, along with six other clergy members traveling with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, had just left a meeting with Yasser Arafat and were on the way to see Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the head of Hamas, when they heard about the bombing at Hebrew University.

Israel Bolsters Local GOP Support

By Adam Wills
Published on June 6, 2002

While the Bush administration's strong support for Israel might not yet be paying off dividends in the Middle East, the stance has certainly been a boon for local Jewish Republicans.

New Stamp on Service

By Julie G Fax
Published on May 31, 2001

Late last summer at Adat Ari El, when work was going on in earnest to craft the new One Shabbat Morning service, Rabbi Moshe Rothblum recalled feeling some resentment at having to drop his High Holiday preparations to attend a One Shabbat Morning meeting.