Briefs: Blogging for Israel@60, Weil makes it official

Published on May 1, 2008

News Briefs

Briefs: UCLA’s Friedlander awarded Pulitzer Prize, Rabbi Weil to head O.U.

Published on April 10, 2008

UCLA historian Saul Friedlander, a child Holocaust survivor, has been awarded a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his definitive account of "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945."

The $10,000 award in the general nonfiction book category honors the 75-year-old scholar and Israeli citizen for his remarkable ability to evoke the entire Nazi era through a combination of meticulous research and a novelist's eye for personal, human detail.

Briefs: Rabbi Weil condemns ‘Spinka’ participants, Prime Grill closure rumors untrue

Published on January 17, 2008

"You call yourself a tzaddik, you're a liar!" Rabbi Steven Weil told his congregation in a fiery speech from the pulpit last Shabbat, regarding someone who acts very religious but may be involved in stealing, lying or cheating.

The rabbi of Beth Jacob, an Orthodox congregation in Beverly Hills, was reacting to the Spinka case, in which eight ultra-Orthodox men were indicted for tax fraud and money laundering.

Take a walk on the Weil side

By David Suissa
Published on January 4, 2007

It's sexy and titillating to read about people getting kicked out of synagogues, which was the subject of a cover story in this paper a few weeks ago.

Your Letters

Published on July 24, 2003

Your Letters

The Price We Pay

By Rabbi Steven Weil
Published on November 21, 2002

Jacob spent 20 long years in the home of his father-in-law, Laban, before he could return to the land of Canaan, his home and homeland.