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0 Culture Communities

Online Dating Needs a Time Machine

Jewdicious · 22 Dec 2025

Tammy Salis recounts her personal love story with her husband, contrasting it with the contemporary dating challenges faced by her adult children.

0 Politics Antisemitism

California Jewish groups say Trump $1B demand of UCLA ‘does not make Jewish students safer’

Andrew Lapin in Forward · 12 Aug 2025

California's leading Jewish organizations, led by the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC), have opposed a $1 billion demand from the Trump administration for UCLA to address federal antisemitism allegations.

0 Communities Ethics

Los Angeles Clergy Responds to Wildfires

Jordan Poltorak in Moment · 21 Jan 2025

Following devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, various Jewish communities have mobilized efforts to support affected individuals.

0 Communities Holidays

LA fires won't stop bar mitzvahs this Shabbat, as joy and pain meet

Louis Keene in Forward · 11 Jan 2025

Despite the devastating wildfires sweeping Los Angeles, which have left many homeless and disrupted daily life, the Jewish community has united to ensure that bar mitzvahs continue as planned.

0 Culture History

Should Jews mourn the loss of the Friars Club?

Benjamin Ivry in Forward · 12 Dec 2024

The closure of Manhattan's Friars Club, a hallmark of old Jewish social traditions and comedy, raises questions about the preservation of such institutions.

0 Literature Politics

Against Politics

David Mikics in Tablet · 3 Jun 2021

David Mikics examines how Thomas Mann, in his wartime writings, advocates for the separation of art and personal life from the political sphere.