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There was a time when Yehuda Lev, an outspoken Jewish journalist who died this past weekend at the age of 86, was the talk of the Los Angeles Jewish community. His weekly column, “A Majority Of One,” published in the local Jewish Journal was widely read and hotly debated each week in the 1980s. He […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:45 p.m. Torah: Deut. 16:18-21:9 Haftarah: Isaiah 51:12-52:12 Havdalah: 8:46 p.m. “You shall surely appoint over yourselves a king whom the Lord your God will choose” [Deuteronomy 17:15]. Sorry, future King George Alexander Louis: Jewish kings are leaders beyond the accident of birth. With all fuss over the addition of a […]

I arrived in Bergen on a day so spectacular it looked almost unreal. A brilliant blue sky was reflected in the city’s central lake, punctuated by a shimmering fountain; at water’s edge, students sprawled on emerald-green grass under bright-pink cherry trees in bloom. The entire city seemed to be in bloom as well. We were […]

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