LOS ANGELES -- The movie industry’s two veteran super-Jews, Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, did not walk off with the most prestigious awards at the Golden Globe Awards, but neither did they go home empty-handed. “The Adventures of Tintin” earned...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 12, 2011
Air Force 1st Lt. Roslyn Schulte of St. Louis, who was killed in action in Afghanistan on May 20, 2009, will be memorialized on the Jewish National Fund's (JNF) Wall of Honor at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. The Wall of Honor stands as a tribute to the...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published September 28, 2011
Dr. Michal Artal is living proof that getting older can provide an opportunity to pursue our passions to the fullest. If we're lucky, time and good health will be on our side. And who knows, perhaps by age 66, we'll enjoy the personal equivalent of a...
By Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal
• Published August 10, 2011
LOS ANGELES - In the same week in which a San Francisco judge struck from the city's November ballot a controversial measure aiming to ban circumcision of any male younger than 18, two reputable media sources reported on a relatively new, little-known...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man suspected of setting a fire in a Southern California synagogue is facing 19 felony charges of burglary and arson.Dmitry Sheyko, 21, is in custody in Los Angeles, charged with the April 14 fire at Temple Israel of Hollywood, according...