Category: Science and Health

It is a miracle. Kehillat Israel, a reconstructionist synagogue in the Pacific Palisades, stands after the devasting Palisades fire last week on January 7th. Yet many of their congregation lost their homes. Despite this, the tight-knit community wasted no time in re-establishing as quickly as possible. Through the generosity of the Cayton Children’s Museum in […]

Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee (ArbCom), which is the site’s version of the Supreme Court, is on the verge of issuing indefinite topic bans to eight editors involved in the Israel-Palestine topic area, most of them of being anti-Israel editors. ArbCom is Wikipedia’s highest dispute resolution board consisting of 15 members (one of whom is currently inactive) […]

When disaster strikes, the LA Jewish community shows up—and OBKLA (Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles) is proving just how true that is. Since the devastating fires broke out across the city, this kosher meal prep kitchen has been a beacon of hope, delivering more than 1,000 meals daily to emergency workers, evacuation centers, and families in need. OBKLA’s […]

Anti-Israel activists on social media and elsewhere have compared the ongoing fires Los Angeles to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, with some going as far as blaming Israel for the fires. The most notable figure to compare the Los Angeles fires to Gaza was Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the […]

Shiphrah and Puah, two midwives in Egypt, were commanded by the tyrant Pharoah to kill all male Israelite babies. As Exodus’ first chapter describes, however, the women sensed that above the monarch reigned a higher power. They feared God. So, “they did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the […]

“There was a great and mighty wind, but God was not in the wind. After the wind, an earthquake, but God was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake, fire, but God was not in the fire. After the fire – a still small voice” (I Kings 19:11-12). God was not in the wind, God […]

When Ella Nahmias, who owns the kosher Israeli restaurant Holy Grill in Pico-Robertson with her husband Adiel, saw what was happening during the wildfires, she knew what they had to do: give back to the community. In an Instagram post on January 10, she announced that Holy Grill would be offering one free meal per […]

The inept politicians who slashed fire department budgets and ignored warnings bear responsibility for engulfing our city in flames. Wildfires are still burning through my hometown of Los Angeles, displacing thousands of people and ruining billions of dollars of property.  The two largest fires, in the Pacific Palisades and Eaton, near Pasadena, are already the most destructive […]

The Time: 9 a.m., Wednesday, January 8 The Place: Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles, 8657 West Pico Boulevard The Occasion:  Bris of baby boy Muchnik, son of Rabbi Eli and Bassie Muchnik, founders of Chabad of Picfair Village The tables were set, delicious food was laid out, and the crowd gathered to welcome yet another […]