Mark Cuban agrees to sell majority Dallas Mavericks stake to Dr. Miriam Adelson for...
Mark Cuban, the Jewish billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor and NBA team owner, is poised to make two major changes in his business and public presence.
Cuban has agreed to sell his majority ownership of the...
Historic statesman, who advised presidents, Henry Kissinger dead at 100
Alan Dershowitz first met Henry Kissinger in the mid-1960s. “We were both professors at Harvard, and his son and my son were elementary school classmates,” Dershowitz, an attorney, commentator and Harvard Law School professor...
Jewish great awakening follows Oct. 7 terror attacks
Those who experience the trauma of losing a friend or loved one or seeing them injured in a violent conflict often become more religious, according to research that U.S., Canadian, Czech and German researchers published in...
Farmer hero saved scores while Hamas massacred 364 at music festival
Rami Davidian, a farmer from Moshav Patish, an Israeli farming community located about 10 miles from the Gaza Strip, saved scores of young partygoers during Hamas's murderous assault on the northwestern Negev.
Davidian, 58, will...
The Philanthropy of Ernest and Evelyn Rady
Editor’s Note: This is the 10th chapter in Volume 3 of Editor Emeritus Donald H. Harrison’s 2022 trilogy, “Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5.” All three books as well as others written by Harrison may...
Argentina’s first ‘Jewish’ president? Milei wins decisive victory
Argentina's newly elected president, Javier Milei, won a resounding victory on Sunday on promises to save the country's crumbling economy. But Jewish issues, too, are close to his heart.
“I am thinking about converting to...
‘Wartime magician’ performs 26 shows in nine days for kids in Israel
Alan Sakowitz just completed a whirlwind tour in Israel to entertain both displaced children and children of Israeli soldiers.
Sakowitz performed in Efrat, Kiryat Gat, Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem and Beitar, doing 26 shows from Oct....
‘Be on the front lines,’ former Canadian envoy Irwin Cotler advises young Jews
Irwin Cotler, the 83-year-old human-rights advocate and former Canadian parliamentarian, received the lifetime achievement award of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs last month at a conference in Ottawa.
The award, according to organizers, recognized “his...
Farewell to Liel, 12-year-old victim of Hamas
KIBBUTZ REVIVIM—Clothes. Perfume. Sewing materials from school.
In the end, these were the belongings of a 12-year-old Israeli girl, burned alive in the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, which were buried late Wednesday in the small cemetery of...
Los Angeles Theater Critic, San Diego Jewish World Contributor Cynthia Citron Dies at 89
Cynthia Wynn Taylor Citron, born September 16, 1934, in Boston, died November 11, 2023, in New York, of pneumonia and old age.
For nearly 20 years she was a well known theater critic in Los...