It’s a Wonderful Life… in Florida…

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 22, 2011

In reversal, new Ashkelon ER will not be moved

Published on April 13, 2010

Israel's prime minister decided not to relocate the site of a new protected emergency room in southern Israel despite the presence of ancient graves.

Benjamin Netanyahu announced the decision Monday, a day after Israel's Cabinet gave him the authority to determine whether or not to relocate Barzilai Medical Center's planned underground emergency room in Ashkelon, which is within range of Gaza's rockets. The graves, which Israel antiquities experts have said are likely pagan, will be dug up and moved, Netanyahu announced.

Heads Carolina, Tails California

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on January 20, 2005

Are you part of an outgoing, talkative, loud Jewish family? And are you looking for a new place to live? And are you dying to have the whole experience air on national TV?

Then consider applying for the WB's upcoming "The Relocation Show." The new reality show (produced by RDF Media, the British production company that created "Wife Swap"), helps make the process of selecting a new place to live slightly less daunting and will move the family anywhere in the 50 states, including Hawaii.

France’s Dangerous Cocktail

By Andre Glucksmann
Published on August 5, 2004

On July 18, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon festively proposed to "all the Jews of France" "to move to Israel immediately ... because in France today, one of the wildest forms of anti-Semitism is spreading."

Sharon is wrong -- not in his concern about a real rise in anti-Semitism in France, but because he explains it too simplistically.

Ten percent of the French population is of Muslim origin. Most are not fundamentalists who feel solidarity with the Hamas suicide bomb campaigns.

Opportunities and Changes Abound

By Rabbi Marc S. Dworkin
Published on December 4, 2003

This month, as I started my work with the American Jewish Committee (AJC), my wife's father, Sol, celebrated his 90th birthday with his friends at Leisure World of Laguna Woods. Like many of us, Sol is a transplant to Orange County from Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and finally reaching this day at Leisure World.

We are a people that move as life changes. For Sol, this has been a fortunate journey, and he has his community to support him. For the rest of us, finding our place in a community of transplants can be a challenge.

The Art of Giving

By Rob Eshman
Published on January 2, 2003

Call me short-sighted and atavistic, but I believe one of the most encouraging bits of news I heard last week was the decision by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to suspend its renovation.

The bad news is Los Angeles will have to wait indefinitely to have a splashier namesake art museum, a Getty-by-the-Tar Pits. The good news is the major donors, many of whom are Jewish, now might be swayed to move some of that museum money over into other communal needs.

Just over one year ago, the museum unveiled a bold plan to overhaul and expand the Wilshire Boulevard institution, according to an architectural design by Rem Koolhaas of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The renovation, which would have involved a downstairs plaza and redesigned upstairs galleries under a tent-like roof, was expected to cost upwards of $400 million.

Koala Makes Aliyah

By Henry Benjamin
Published on December 5, 2002

Didgee is looking forward to the day he can leave the quarantine cage to snuggle up with his two Sheilas in the shade of a eucalyptus tree, and learn to say "Shalom" as well as "G'day."