I’m sure State Senator Scott Wiener felt he was being courageous when he announced on Sunday that Israel committed a “genocide” in Gaza. A few days earlier, Wiener, who is running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, had declined to make that accusation... See more
A year after the disastrous fires that flattened thousands of homes in west Altadena and took 31 lives, we have mostly silence from the elite creative class of Los Angeles. These are the folks who routinely fight for justice for victims halfway around the... See more
How many suitcases does it take to carry $94 billion? I’ve been asking myself that question ever since my friend Dan Williams from Reuters alerted me today to this latest news: “Israel’s military intelligence now believes the Tehran government could fall,... See more
Timothée Chalamet’s performance as ping pong wiz Marty Mauser in “Marty Supreme” is so electric it’s easy to forget this was only a few years after the Holocaust. And yet, the Holocaust was never far from my mind as I watched the film. Maybe it was that e... See more
In the Jewish world, one idea that comes up over and over again is the idea of community. Indeed of all the Jewish values that have sustained us since we landed on these shores, few have been as elevated as the value of community. Regardless of geography ... See more
