July 16, 2019The Dreidel
They are coming of age with Parkland and Pittsburgh and the hyper-polarized politics of Washington. And whether you call them the iGeneration or Gen Z, today’s teens and young adults — feeling at once vulnerable and empo...
read moreJuly 2, 2019The Dreidel
By: Chanel Halimi, licensed psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA Do you recognize when someone has a cold? What are the symptoms? Perhaps they are coughing? Sneezing? Getting up to get tissues? Sound stuffy or congested? ...
read moreJune 27, 2019The Dreidel
A couple of years ago, there was a huge controversy over children dressing up as Anne Frank for Halloween. Since we love the child like make believe world of hero worship, I didn't find anything wrong with trying to emulat...
read moreJune 5, 2019The Dreidel
UCLA has been a hotbed of anti-Semitism for years. I wrote about it in my piece UCLA: No Place for Jews. As a matter of fact, it was the rise of anti-Semitism on the UCLA campus, along with a relationship that I had with...
read moreMay 30, 2019The Dreidel
The Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday weighed into the controversy over a Trump administration adviser’s comment from 2014 comparing the “demonization” of carbon dioxide emissions with the genocide of six million Jew...
read moreMay 21, 2019The Dreidel
By Michael Dickson Executive Director, Stand With Us Israel Israel’s Eurovision entry barely made a dent on the scoreboard but there’s no doubt that the Jewish State was the real winner of the Eurovision Song Conten...
read moreMay 20, 2019The Dreidel
Worshippers at a Lakeview East synagogue noticed broken glass on their way to Sunday morning services but didn’t think anything of it. Later that morning, they saw charred rags and realized there had been an arson attem...
read moreMay 15, 2019The Dreidel
Song contest semi-final interrupted with warnings of imminent attack on Tel Aviv. The online stream of the Eurovision semi-finals in Israel was hacked to show warnings of a missile strike and images of blasts in the host ...
read moreMay 6, 2019The Dreidel
In 2001, UNICEF released a study on the effects of war on Israeli and Palestinian children. The innocents that are caught in the headlights of violence are sometimes the ones who are effected most, and have lasting symptom...
read moreApril 28, 2019The Dreidel
We are living in strange times. We urge all of our readers to take a moment when entering a synagogue or any public place to familiarize yourself with where the exits are. In the case of Lori Kaye, there was only one exi...
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