neighbor Archives – Jewish Journal

Welcoming Refugees as Neighbors

Esther D. Kustanowitz October 17, 2018

Hancock Park Shul War Back in Court

Julie Gruenbaum Fax August 21, 2003

The rabbi of a small, embattled congregation is charging that anti-Semites and self-hating Jews are using zoning laws to get Orthodox Jews out of Hancock Park as an epic eight-year legal battle heads back to court.

Fair Weight

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila May 3, 2001

Honesty, morality and ethical behavior — these are the calling cards of Leviticus, and they are the centerpieces of Jewish behavior and identity. Amongst the mitzvot enumerated in Leviticus 19 (known by some scholars as the \”Holiness Code\”) are respect for parents, charity for the poor, prohibitions against stealing and lying, a reminder to pay an employee\’s wages on time, the moral obligation not to take advantage of the deaf or blind, honesty and fairness in justice, prohibitions against holding grudges or exacting revenge, and the famous mitzvah to \”love your neighbor as yourself.\”

Ehud Barak’s Kind of Town

Larry Derfner June 3, 1999

When incoming Prime Minister Ehud Barak needs to talk things over with Gen. Shaul Mofaz, the military chief of staff, he won\’t have to go far: Mofaz lives 12 houses away from him in the town of Kochav Yair.