Julie Gruenbaum Fax
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
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News I went on Holocaust pilgrimage as an adult. A virtual March of the Living isn’t enough.
Through the dark forest, my parents and I inched our way over rocks and twigs, to a clearing surrounded by a short fence edged with unlit candles and flowers, some fake, some wilting. My feet pressed into the spongy weeds as our group gathered to hum a niggun, then say Kaddish. Huddled near my parents…
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Culture At an L.A. children’s museum, a universal story with Jewish origins
Directly above the Disney Store and just across from the Cheesecake Factory on the top level of the outdoor Santa Monica Place mall, the Cayton Children’s Museum looks out onto a glittering central courtyard, where the mall’s oversized Christmas tree stretches up three stories. The star-topped tip sits just above eye level with the museum’s…
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News Torah Scrolls Were Desecrated In L.A., But It Might Not Be A Hate Crime
Updated 3:30 p.m. Images of Torah scrolls yanked open, ripped apart, and strewn across the sanctuary at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills last Shabbat has left a knot in the collective gut of the Los Angeles Jewish community and American Jewry more broadly, which is still reeling from a murderous attack at a Jersey City…
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