1+ hour, 44+ min ago   (789+ words) Not many people know that the Memphis hotel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 is now the home of the National Civil Rights Museum. In describing King's legacy, the museum highlights his universal and unifying appeal: "A…...

5+ hour, 23+ min ago   (667+ words) They were peaceful. They were civic. And they terrified the Soviet leadership. For Moscow, Baku represented a nightmare scenario: not a fringe rebellion, but a united, popular movement that cut across social classes and religious communities. The fear was not disorder'it…...

21+ hour, 11+ min ago   (680+ words) This perspective plainly has an racist angle, making Jews an obvious target. Despite the fact that Jewish settlement on this continent goes back to 1654, to the MAGA nationalists, Jews are never "us," always "them." Blend this with the isolationism implicit…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (717+ words) This Monday is MLK Day, a national holiday to honor one of our great heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Typically, K12 schools across the country have honored his life and legacy through volunteering and other good deeds. But for some…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (711+ words) In 2019, when three people were killed at a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey, Chai Lifeline showed up to offer support. Then, just two years later, after the Surfside condominium collapsed, and 98 people died, Chai Lifeline trained clinicians on…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1239+ words) As Valley Beth Shalom celebrates the 100th anniversary of Rabbi Harold Schulweis" birth (and the 20th year since Rabbi Ed Feinstein was named Sr. Rabbi), Feinstein looked back at the more than 55 years he knew Schulweis. "It"s easy for us to…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (670+ words) The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival drew a full house at the Laemmle Town Center in Encino for a sold-out screening of the acclaimed Yiddish-language drama "SHTTL," the story of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland, 24 hours…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1572+ words) Two weeks ago I had an animated discussion with Zev Brenner on his radio show. It was January 1st, and I had just returned home from a vigil outside the Mamdani inauguration. Rabbi Avi Weiss and I had stood outside "the…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1038+ words) Sailing with Windstar Cruises through Tahiti and the Society Islands was an entirely different experience from my earlier time here. Star Breeze is intimate, elegant, and deeply connected to the destination. From the moment I stepped onboard, I felt it:…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (837+ words) Even more importantly: What happens when doing the right thing comes at a cost? "There are moral choices we all have to make," said Spinak, who curated and adapted the stories for the show. "And having a moment to reflect…...