Los Angeles
I visited a tiny home village for the homeless. Why aren’t there more of them?
Hope of the Valley pastor Ken Craft created The Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village in Los Angeles to give homeless people a second chance.
Bari Weiss on Judaism, journalism and civil society
Journalist Bari Weiss acceptance speech for The Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism from the Los Angeles Press Club
Jews built Hollywood. So why is their history erased from the Academy’s new museum?
The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles neglects Hollywood’s Jewish founders
As faculties push petitions critical of Israel, professors push back
On college campuses, controversy grows over department statements against Israel
Gov. Gavin Newsom announces new council, big spending on Holocaust education during L.A. visit
On visit to Museum of Tolerance, Governor Gavin Newsom launches Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education
L.A. teachers sidestep BDS resolution in decisive union vote
A resolution to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the second-largest teachers’ union in the country met a quiet demise Thursday evening, defying a trend among public school boards that accelerated after the Gaza-Israel war last May.
I spoke to a Holocaust survivor’s 3D hologram. Then I phoned the survivor.
Firestone’s survival story is immortalized in the new exhibit, which took five days to film over 1000 questions about her life.
Family of executed Iranian Jewish businessman still seeks justice, 40 years later
“They killed my husband for only one reason — he was a Jew.” 40 years later, Fakhri Gedooshim shares the story of her husband’s arrest and execution.
East Coast v. West Coast Bagels, so which are better?
The Great Bagel Off judged which coast has better bagels, East or West
Why California just gave the 100 year-old Breed Street Shul $15 million
A crumbling synagogue in a neighborhood long ago abandoned by the Jewish community just received millions of dollars from the State of California. At a time when the state faces urgent needs for affordable housing, homeless services and drought relief, you might ask: “A synagogue?”