L.A.’s Russians recapture their Jewish soul
Ryan Torok
June 4, 2014
In March, Svetlana Rapoport became a bat mitzvah.
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L.A. Russian Jewish Young Adult Network: Everybody has a story
Ryan Torok
June 4, 2014
When Viktoriya Kernes was just 13, her mother sent her to a Jewish social event. Kernes had no idea why.
Mike Wallace: A dissent
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2012
Praise for Mike Wallace as a probing investigative reporter saturated news media immediately after his death April 7 at age 93. Virtually all tributes omitted the fact that when it came to anti-Israeli tyrants, terrorists and oppressors of Jewish minorities, Wallace son of Russian Jewish immigrants usually pitched softballs and parroted propaganda.
Abolish Jackson-Vanik, Russian Jews urge Congress
Jewish Journal
December 21, 2010
Representatives of the Russian Jewish Congress asked the U.S. Congress to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment. The appeal was addressed to the U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Beyrly, during a meeting Monday in Moscow that took place on the 36th anniversary of the amendment\’s adoption. The amendment restricts Russian trade with the United States. “The viewpoint of the Jewish community on the problem is that the amendment affects the community negatively now, being a stumbling block in the development of U.S.- Russia relations,\” Russian Jewish Congress President Yuri Kanner said in a statement.
Briefs: Governator opens new Saban Free Clinic, Weisenthal Center pressures Swiss on Iran deal
Jewish Journal
April 25, 2008
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‘Non-Jewish’ Jews endure challenges living in Israel
Dina Kraft
January 4, 2008
In Israel, the \”non-Jewish Jews,\” as some Israelis call them, are everywhere. They drive buses, teach university classes, patrol in army jeeps and follow the latest Israeli reality TV shows as avidly as their Jewish counterparts. For these people — mostly immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not Jews according to Israeli law — the question of where they fit into the Jewish state remains unanswered nearly two decades after they began coming to Israel.
Lawsuit Filed in Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting
Jewish Journal
August 24, 2006
World News; Lawsuit Filed in Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting; Young Quits After \’Hurtful\’ Remarks; Olmert Pressed on War Inquiry; Diaspora Money Heads North; Israeli Officials Face Sexual-Harassment Charges; Israeli Children Anxious After War; Major Israeli Writer Dies; Israel: Hezbollah Used Russian Weapons; Jewish-Owned Market in Moscow Bombed; Restaurant in India Named After Hitler; Annan Chides Iran on Holocaust Cartoons.\n
Gunter Grass Admits to SS Past
Jewish Journal
August 17, 2006
Grass, 78, whose autobiography is due out this fall, told the Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung in an interview published last Friday that he was drafted into the Waffen SS in the final months of World War II.
Evangelicals Slate Pro-Israel Lobbying
Tom Tugend
June 22, 2006
CUFI\’s purpose, according to its official brochure, is \”to provide a national association through which every pro-Israel church, parachurch organization, ministry or individual in America can speak and act with one voice in support of Israel in matters related to biblical issues.\”
Latin American Jews Create L.A. Oasis
Roberto Loiederman
June 8, 2006
Imagine that you live in Latin America and you\’re Jewish. Typically, you and your family would belong to a full-service Jewish club with cultural, recreational, educational and athletic activities for all ages. The club is reasonably priced, promotes Jewish identity in a secular manner and is the backbone of your social life.
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