How a Jewish co-housing community created by the Reform movement transformed the lives of California college students
A mounting Internet feud has led to the expulsion of a public leader of the Holocaust revisionist movement from Amazon.com and triggered a slew of threatening e-mails against a Jewish communal official. The trouble started soon after Allyson Rowen Taylor, associate director of the Los Angeles office of the American Jewish Congress, ordered one of…
Dennis Gansel’s riveting film, “Before the Fall (Napola),” sheds light on the little-known Napolas, acronym for Nazi National Political Academies — elitist ideological greenhouses with perverted curricula and barbaric military and physical training that shaped young Germans into “future gauleiters for [such anticipated Reich conquests as] London and Capetown.” It is Berlin, 1942. Against his…
With Israel still reeling from a prolonged dispute with the White House over military cooperation with China, the Bush administration is forcing Jerusalem to freeze a major contract to upgrade Venezuela’s American-manufactured F-16 fighter jets. The Israeli Defense Ministry suggested America’s move in a statement last week, noting that “in accordance with agreements between the…
The 91-year-old Heim was believed to be living out his final years on the Spanish island of Ibiza
After an opening-weekend screening of the movie “Left Behind: World at War,” a pastor stood in front of the sheet onto which the movie had been projected at Temple Jehovah Shammah. “This evening, we’d like to make an invitation,” said the pastor of the nondenominational evangelical church in the South Bronx. “If you’d like to…
As Republican fund raiser and pro-Israel activist Cheryl Halpern assumes the chairmanship of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, she is taking on what has become one of the most politically charged jobs in Washington — and activists on all sides are waiting to see whether she revives some of the controversial practices of her conservative…
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wasted no time trying to clear the air on Yom Kippur. Moments after taking the microphone during an afternoon break in the congregation Beyt Tikkun’s service, the slain soldier’s mother — who drew international attention in August with her weeks-long anti-war vigil outside President Bush’s vacation home — noted that it…
LOS ANGELES — Four-time Olympic gold-medal winner Lenny Krayzelburg now works in an office one floor down from the Los Angeles offices of American for Peace Now and the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. Krayzelburg opened his swim school in the new Westside Jewish Community Center. The building is not new — it is actually a dilapidated…
Press Group Files Brief An organization that advocates freedom of the press is asking a federal court to accept an amicus brief. The brief highlights the dangers to journalistic freedoms that may be caused by trying two former pro-Israel lobbyists and one former Pentagon employee for communicating classified information. Last week the Washington-based Reporters Committee…
Israeli Police are investigating two suspects in the Sabbath-evening attack by dozens of Orthodox worshippers at the Western Wall on the Israeli military’s personnel chief, Elazar Stern. The attackers were apparently motivated by Stern’s role in Israel’s pullout from Gaza, which was completed last month. Stern was adamant about denouncing calls by leading Orthodox rabbis…
