The Real Housewives of Orange County are Over

By Ilana Angel
Published on February 16, 2012

The Real Madoff Scandal: Charitable Hoarding

Published on March 18, 2009

Of all the shocks of the Bernie Madoff heist, perhaps none was more stunning than the list of victims. Among them were several Jewish foundations and many of our community’s most prominent nonprofits. The losses were staggering, and in some cases crippling.

2009

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 11, 2008

The image of oil sheiks lighting campfires to keep warm beside their indoor ski slopes comforted me for only an instant. The truth is, their pain and our pain are interconnected, as it is with the fate of those striking Chicago factory workers, the college grads unable to find decent jobs and, of course, our own Jewish community.

TV: Suze Orman isn’t all about the money—she has a spiritual side, too

By Elissa Strauss
Published on November 1, 2007

Despite the fact that Orman has not been associated with Judaism in any traditional sense for decades, this search for purpose continues to inform her work. She says she is still a spiritually inquisitive person and that she has never stopped contemplating the concept of God.

Das Happy Kapital

By Rob Eshman
Published on May 3, 2007

Just another 30 seconds at the Milken Institute Global Conference, the annual gathering that attracts everybody you've ever seen on CSPAN, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and FOX, including the owner of FOX, Rupert Murdoch -- I bumped into him coming out of the men's room.

City Voice: We’re not who we think we are

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on March 8, 2007

There is a preconceived notion about the Los Angeles Jewish community being affluent, increasingly conservative and preoccupied with Israel to the exclusion of other issues.

Poverty in Israel: The divide deepens between the haves and have-nots

By Dina Kraft
Published on March 8, 2007

Once idealized as a socialist paradise, Israel is increasingly becoming a country of two classes -- those who have soared in the increasingly capitalist economy and those who have stumbled in its wake.

Iranian Jews struggle with segregation, presumption and assimilation -- how the stranger became the Angeleno

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 22, 2007

There is no demographic study of the Iranian Jewish community in Los Angeles, although its size is generally given as 30,000, including the American-born children of the original immigrants.

Jewish causes must compete to get big charitable gifts

By Gary Tobin
Published on September 28, 2006

A $100 million gift to Yeshiva University is the largest ever to a U.S. Jewish Institution. Why don't more wealthy jews give to jewish causes?

The Social Security Fix: Pay Back Funds

By Rep. Henry Waxman
Published on April 14, 2005

President Bush has proposed the biggest transfer of wealth in history. He plans to use trillions of dollars in contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and other administration spending priorities.

Your Letters

Published on January 22, 2004

I was deeply disturbed to read Marc Ballon's article on "Low Wages Force Workers to Struggle" (Jan. 2). Where is the outcry from the community?

Stanley Hirsh

By Rob Eshman
Published on March 27, 2003

Stanley Hirsh shared a vision of a newspaper that could serve as a kind of hub for an increasingly diverse and far-flung community.

Charming? Not the Word for Politics

By Leonard Fein
Published on January 23, 2003

Plato described democracy as "a charming form of government." Well, perhaps in ancient Greece there wasn't much else to charm away the days.

Education Activists Face Off

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on November 14, 2002

Los Angeles Board of Education member David Tokofsky has always taken pride in being a Jewish representative in an area that was overwhelmingly Latino.

Money for Something

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 3, 2002

Abraham was rich. Jesus was poor. That fact says a lot about the relationship between Jews and money.

Love for Sale

By J. D. Smith
Published on August 9, 2001

Too often these days my reach exceeds my grasp, which is why I've come to realize: I need a wealthy woman to take care of me.

Making the List

By Rob Eshman
Published on May 24, 2001

The May 21 issue of the Los Angeles Business Journal features the paper's annual list of "The 50 Wealthiest Angelenos." More than half the people listed, in fact, close to 60 percent, are Jewish. In a county where Jews number about 520,000, or just 5 percent out of a population of 10 million, that statistic begs examination, if not wonder.

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.

Entrepreneurial Philanthropy, the New Charity

Published on November 13, 1997

On a chilly autumn morning in late October, in a rooftop sukkahatop New York's Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a small group ofrabbis, Hebrew teachers and millionaire investors joined hands tomark what their leader called a "defining point in American Jewishphilanthropy": an $18 million fund to help create new Jewish dayschools around the country, paid for by a "partnership" among a dozenof America's richest Jewish families.