Category: Science and Health

I didn’t expect to receive a lesson in dignity when my friend and I began watching “Singing in the Rain” the other night. Lately, we’ve been enjoying old movies for their innocence. We’re tired of hip, cool and snarky. Just give us honest entertainment, hold the sarcasm. That’s what I was expecting—pure, honest entertainment, and […]

It was the morning of Monday, December 15. Just one day earlier, Jews had been massacred at a public Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia. Like every Jew, I was heartbroken. And I was scared. I was planning a Hanukkah party to take place the next night at Robertson Rec Center in Pico-Robertson, in […]

Eli Sharabi recently visited Sinai Temple. He explained that when he and Almog Sarusi were forced to go down into the tunnels, Eli resisted, at first refusing to go underground. Hamas terrorists put a gun to his head. Eli realized that even through this horrific moment, he had a choice. Live or die. His message […]

Increasingly, Sephardi and Mizrahi children are enrolling in Jewish day schools and camps in Los Angeles and New York. As a new study commissioned by the nonprofit JIMENA, Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, shows, these institutions are responding with inclusive programs – but there are still improvements to be made. According […]

The Festival of Lights just plunged Australia, and its beleaguered Jewish community, into darkness Down Under. One thousand Aussies gathered on Bondi Beach for the lighting of the menorah on the first night of Hanukkah. An Israeli intelligence officer told Fox News that his Australian counterparts were on notice about the probability of a Hanukkah […]

Visiting Rabbi Liora Alban and Rabbi Daniel Freedman in their Mid City home, it’s possible to believe they’re newlyweds, even though they’ve been married for four years and it’s been 11 and a half years since they met. “What’s special about being married to a rabbi,” Rabbi Freedman said, “is that we aren’t able to […]

Rashi’s 11th-century commentary to the Torah is so central that it has almost merged with the text in our consciousness. Rabbi Shlomo Luria declared in the 16th century that Rashi’s work is the best “translation” of the text, and people should study it weekly alongside the parsha. And “Chumash-Rashi” (with the hyphen barely pronounced) was […]