Letter from LA
The ‘Super-gay, super-Jewish’ Ari Gold’s friends and family remember the late pop star who embraced both identities
When he died on Valentine’s Day 2021 after a battle with leukemia, pop singer and LGBTQ+ activist Ari Gold left behind a legacy of love and pride in both his gay and Jewish identity.
A virtual tour of Esther’s tomb? In L.A., one man’s lonely mission to archive Iranian Jewish culture
Celebrating Purim is bittersweet for Fariborz Moradzadeh, an Iranian Jewish businessman in Los Angeles.
Black Lives Matter. Unless they’re homeless
You can’t say Black Lives Matter and let homelessness fester
What the old Jewish radical taught me about George Floyd
What the old Jewish radical taught me about George Floyd
At Jewish Home, a coronavirus success story
How Jewish Home for the Aging in Los Angeles has beaten the odds on coronavirus
On Pico-Robertson, kosher restaurants adjust, and struggle
In Alain Cohen’s new normal, loyal customers still walk into Got Kosher? to pick up their Shabbat take-out meals, buy his famous pretzel challahs and engage in masked conversation.
After devastating fires, Wilshire Blvd. Temple camps now face pandemic
Wilshire Blvd. Temple camps struggle to decide whether to open during the pandemic.
Love in the time of coronavirus
Bella Staav and Jonathan Sunshine get married in a socially-distanced Jewish wedding in Los Angeles.
The death of small business is a tragedy for Jewish community and democracy
“Small-scale commercial production is, every moment of every day, giving birth spontaneously to capitalism and the bourgeoisie…wherever there is small business and freedom of trade, capitalism appears.”— V.I. Lenin
Adam Schiff, post-impeachment, mid-corona
Adam Schiff: the coronavirus pandemic makes the 2020 election “rife for manipulation.”