Am I On the List?

By Beit T'shuvah
Published on March 15, 2013

Rabbi David Wolpe tops Newsweek’s L.A.-heavy list of ‘most influential’ rabbis

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 2, 2012

Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple is officially the top rabbi in America, according to Newsweek and the Daily Beast. The sixth annual installment of the “Top 50 Rabbis” list, published on April 2, included rabbis who head religious movements, rabbis who lead political and community organizations, and rabbis known for their scholarship and teaching.

Livni, Giffords on Newsweek’s influential women list

Published on March 6, 2012

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni and several American Jews, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were included in Newsweek's 150 "Women Who Shake the World."

Sidney Harman, Newsweek chairman and entrepreneur, dies at 92

Published on April 13, 2011

Sidney Harman, a Jewish entrepreneur who bought Newsweek magazine last year, has died.

Newsweek and gay marriage: ‘If you don’t know what the Bible says ...’

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 10, 2008

Newsweek’s gay marriage cover story

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 9, 2008

Drug abuse debate: Legalization, medication or therapy?

By Roberto Loiederman
Published on April 24, 2008

On a wall at Beit T'Shuvah's sanctuary there are plaques with the names of those connected with Beit T'Shuvah who have passed away. One of those names is that of Josh Lowenthal, a former resident who died on June 11, 1995

Briefs: Newsweek ranks the rabbis, ‘Passover in a Box’

By Amy Klein
Published on April 17, 2008

News Briefs

Rabbi Hier tops ‘Newsweek’ list of rabbis

By Amy Klein
Published on March 25, 2007

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most influential American rabbi of them all? Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, according to a list published Monday in Newsweek. An article titled "American Jews: The List -- Choosing the Chosen," rates America's 50 most influential rabbis -- with three of the top five working in Los Angeles (a total of 11 Angelenos are named).

Articles of Faith

By Rob Eshman
Published on May 19, 2005

At least 17 people were killed in riots that broke out after the May 1 Newsweek story asserting that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried to humiliate prisoners by flushing a Quran down the toilet.

The report infuriated Muslims throughout the world. In Afghanistan, an anti-American riot broke out that left some 17 people dead and more than 100 wounded.

Saudi Plan Marks Change

By Leslie Susser
Published on March 28, 2002

When Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser swept into Khartoum for an Arab summit less than three months after the Arab debacle in the 1967 Six-Day War, he was greeted like a hero.
Newsweek ran a cover story titled, "Hail to the Conquered!" The summit passed the notorious "three no's" defining future relations with Israel: No negotiations, no recognition and no peace.
In July the following year, Nasser took a young Yasser Arafat, traveling on an Egyptian passport under the name of Muhsin Amin, with him to Moscow on an arms shopping spree.

Taking on the Bible

By Rob Eshman
Published on May 8, 1997

Remember that great scene in "Inherit the Wind," when Clarence Darrow asks William Jennings Bryan if a book that details rape, incest, slaughter, nudity and sodomy should be banned? The fundamentalist Bryan answers, "Of course!" and Darrow, with a flourish, whips out a copy of the Bible and declares, "Then you must ban this book!"