Tag: Los Angeles

A lifelong Democrat, Rickles performed at the inauguration of two Republican presidents.

Rabbi Marvin Hier is the first Orthodox rabbi to deliver the invocation for a US presidential inauguration.

'Simon Wiesenthal Center, take disciplinary action against Hier if he refuses to desist from this shameful action.'

Yuval Rotem has experience as an ambassador and as a chief of staff at the Foreign Ministry.

Cult icon actress Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" trilogy, suffered a massive heart attack just 15 minutes before landing at LAX Friday on a flight from London.

All his children were born to non-Jewish mothers, but Douglas insists they were "aware culturally" of his "deep convictions," and he never tried to influence their own religious decisions.

Ashton shuts her down quite effectively.

Tel Aviv came up third for the second year in a row on an 8-point rating scale, ahead of NYC and LA.

One of Hollywood's finest and funniest comedians has been silenced forever. Gene Wilder passes away at age 83.

The parents of Russian-Jewish actor Anton Yelchin sue Fiat Chrysler over their son's death.

Rising Russian-Jewish actor Anton Yelchin, 27, has died in a freak accident at his home in Los Angeles.

The Krakow Judge wrote that "had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights."

An El Al airline made an emergency landing Sunday in Montana due to a possible fire in an engine.

Three housekeepers in his $37 million mansion are suing. The prince reportedly was drunk.

Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries fight an arson attack in Los Angeles with Jewish 'fire.'

Does "monitoring" teenagers mean protecting them against insects?

Could it be that one of America’s largest Jewish communities and kosher markets does not offer kosher fare at its premier ballpark? Apparently so, say...

It's not even safe to be thought you are Jewish these days.

Unfortunately, some people are still in the dark about the significance of this, and similar acts.

Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, the dean of Jewish lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Thursday he will retire, and Republicans immediately jumped...

What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.

Orthodox rabbis for years have denounced the “Kabbalah Centre” as being a fraud of mysticism, Madonna and Britney Spears notwithstanding. Now former followers have sued for financial fraud.

Now here is a real ‘woman at the Wall.” Paula Adbul is in Israel for the first time ever and will visit the Western Wall. At the age of 51, the time finally has come for a Bat Mitzvah.

Simon Cowell, celebrity judge of the “X Factor” and formerly “American Idol,” and Grammy Award-winning musician Lionel Richie were among those who attended The...

Daniel Blatt was a typical success story of a Jew who left behind his Jewish education. He said that after he produced “Rain on Entebbe,” he came back to his Jewish roots. Blatt died in Los Angeles at the age of 76.

Not a peep was heard a few months ago when Israel announced that it would build housing for Arabs in the same area.

The Los Angeles-born woman, whose daughter was spat on by extreme Haredim in Beit Shemesh, has given up her fight for religious tolerance and leaves the city , but she blames modern orthodox Jews.

“Great work is the only kind that’s okay with us."

Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles have convinced a company to take down a billboard that showed a mostly naked woman promoting an energy drink,...

Observant Jews in Los Angeles are bracing for the possibility that they will not be allowed to carry anything or even push a baby...