To combat antisemitism, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles is putting words of wisdom on billboards across town. Just don’t go looking for all the sayings in Jewish texts. The signs — 10 of ...
Happy New Years Eve! Welcome to the California Briefing, the weekly dispatch of California Jewish news from the Forward’s Louis Keene. In this issue: The secret Jewish influence on The White Lotus, ...
Monday, September 6 marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, or erev (eve of) Rosh Hashanah. While the year may be 2021 here in the US, as we enter the eve of the Jewish New Year on the Hebrew Calendar, ...
(JTA) — As he leads the police response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is likely enduring some of the toughest days of his career. And he’s probably ...
Author Karen Cinnamon’s “Jewish Joy Journal” provides a space for gratitude and goals with a Jewish twist. She believes there’s a real need for everyday Jewish goods that are not just Judaica. “I ...
“Eclectic” perhaps most aptly describes Harvey Rachlin’s oeuvre. Having launched his writing career at age 26 with a bestseller, “The Songwriter’s Handbook,” Rachlin soon proceeded to the world of ...
Here’s a challenge: Let’s say you had $1.1 million to give away on a program to inspire people working in Jewish organizations as well as the people who find themselves in their public spaces. What ...
Five members of the former National Front, Swiss Fascist party, today were sentenced to fines ranging between 20 and 400 francs, plus costs, for anti-Jewish defamation in distributing pamphlets ...