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January 2023

The Year in Review

2022 was a big year for Jews in the arts. Here’s what happened on screen and stage.     Once more for the record, Dave...

Jordan Schultz

Bringing the Magic of Music to Life PHOTOS COURTESY OF YAKIR BARRABI When I spoke with Jordan Schultz, he was waiting with great anticipation for the...

The Story of “Oy Vey”

Half Hebrew, half Aramaic, this classic lament is all Jewish     Oy vey!—also: Oy vavoy! Oy vey iz mir! Oy gevalt! Or quite simply:...

The Compassion Gene

A Better Resolution     I awakened at 4:00 a.m. with a rare bout of anxiety. Unable to meditate myself back to sleep, I ultimately stood...

Connecting to Our Past

Modern Jewish Comfort Food     “The story of Jewish comfort food goes something like this,” writes Shannon Sarna in her latest cookbook “Modern Jewish...

The Israeli Weekend

“Shabbat Shalom” vs. “Sofash Na’im”     For Israel’s first half-century, there was one standard way to mark the end of the work week: “Shabbat...

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‘Swastika boards’ and ‘surf Nazis’

New documentary explores surfing’s history of antisemitism When he was 13 years old, Josh Greene moved with his family to San Clemente, California, a city...

News & Jews-March

Congregation B’nai Israel’s ChaiLife    Congregation B’nai Israel’s new social group for Jewish Young Adults (20’s, 30’s, and 40’s) invites you to Purim of the...

Politics, Violence, Memory

The New Social Science of the Holocaust Book coauthored by UCI political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein examines key questions of the Holocaust using tools, methods...

Orange County’s Jewish History

The Fainbarg Kayaks     At 87 years young, the Balboa Fun Zone in Newport Beach is going strong. It began during the Depression, in...