By Nurit Greenger This month amidst the war between Israel and Hamas, at the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) under the auspices of the MOT and Israel Consulate General to the West Coast, USA, Hilary Helstein, LAJFF Executive Director, organized the screening of the Israeli film Seven Blessings, Israel’s official entry to the 2024 Academy Awards. […]
By Clarence Walker Many Americans think affirmative action is dead as a skeleton. Not quite. There are remnants of diversity allowable in decision-making. To make it work it takes strategy and a rewrite of policy admissions. That’s all it takes. Reading through the fine print of the U.S. Supreme Court decision and if read correctly […]
By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir This story presents the interesting consistency among Biblical Egypt’s actions (described in the Midrash) to avoid climate disaster, Islamic principles of social justice, and viable approaches societies could take today to avert our own environmental crisis. The actions Egypt took in its survival to avoid an apocalyptic famine as described in […]