Scratch it Up

By Elliot Steingart
Published on August 22, 2012

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a Pig & a Pervert, Not a Rapist

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 24, 2011

Millionaire Matchmaker & Most Eligible Dallas are Really, Really, Really Bad

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 15, 2011

The laws according to a Super Model, Gisele Bündchen!

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 9, 2011

Super Bowl XLV

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 8, 2011

Jewish leader Nan Rich is Florida Senate minority leader

Published on December 8, 2010

Democratic state senators in Florida elected national Jewish leader Nan Rich as their minority leader. Rich was elected to lead the 12 Democrats in the state Senate, down two from the previous session following an election in which Florida Democrats also suffered losses in the state House and in the congressional delegation. Rich, 62, has served as the national president of the National Council of Jewish Women, and as a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Food Poverty Grows in Israel

By Loolwa Khazzoom
Published on September 18, 2003

When, not so long ago, the director of an Israeli nonprofit organization noticed that an employee would appear at work every Sunday morning so fatigued that he could barely function, he issued him a stern warning to "stop partying so hard on Saturday nights."

The gaunt-looking employee burst into tears, explaining that he had not eaten since Thursday afternoon, when he received his last hot meal of the week at work.

Find the Gems

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on September 27, 2001

There once was a man who could provide only potatoes for his family's subsistence. As the monotony and the poverty wore on, he prayed, and his prayers were answered. There fell into his hands a mysterious map to a magical Island of Diamonds.

The Honeymoon is Over

By Eric Silver
Published on February 24, 2000

Nine months after Ehud Barak took office as "everybody's prime minister," the honeymoon is over -- with his voters, coalition allies and Arab partners in the quest for peace. It is too early to write him off, but the Labor leader can no longer rely on loyalty or goodwill to see him through.

Rich in Spirit

By Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh
Published on December 9, 1999

There's a Yiddish saying that goes: "I've been poor and I've been rich. Believe me, rich is better!" In the Midrash we read: "Nothing in the universe is worse than poverty; it is the most terrible of sufferings." (Exodus Rabbah 31:14)

Gary Winnick Steps Out Front

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 30, 1999

When Gary Winnick was a youngster, his immigrant grandfather, a former pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side, gave him the then princely sum of $25. Where another boy might have rushed out to buy a bicycle or treat his buddies to a soda fountain binge, Gary carefully put the money away.

Spin Cycle

Published on March 26, 1998

A spate of new polls shows Jews divided, Arafat unpopular and pollsters getting rich

L.A.‘s Ultimate Power Broker

By Joel Kotkin
Published on December 11, 1997

For most of this century, Los Angeles has been a city of two elites -- one predominately WASPish, the other predominately Jewish. Although they occasionally collaborated on projects such as the MusicCenter, the two worlds remained largely separate and indifferent to each other, living in a ruling-class version of institutional apartheid.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on June 12, 1997

Everything in Creation has a purpose, teaches the Midrash. But when someone gave us a gift subscription to People Weekly magazine, I was left to wonder if I had found the first truly purposeless thing in God's universe.