Los Angeles

Walter Mosley talks about his best-selling books, Jewish L.A., and identifying with Isaac Bashevis Singer

Hamburger chain Burgerim opens its first American store, serving fast food with a Middle Eastern twist

John Garfield, the tough, underrated Hollywood star who would have turned 100 today, embodied Jewish pride

A Jewish deli favorite endures in a Mexican-American neighborhood that was once L.A.’s Lower East Side

In the race to become the next mayor, candidates play up their Jewish cred

Part II: “Los Angelenos”

An Israeli reality TV show sends hopeful Mizrahi pop stars to California to chase the American Dream

In 2007, I traveled to Sderot to make a film. Months later, I made it my home—and Gaza my neighbor.

Tablet Original Fiction: When a man of science loves a woman of God, what lies between them?

The 1960s radical decades ago switched his politics, fleeing the New Left to become a conservative provocateur. Then the right wing left him behind.

Varian Fry led the effort to save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and thousands of other European intellectuals from the Nazis. Why was he forgotten?

Brooklyn-born photographer Julius Shulman, the subject of two recent books, captured Los Angeles’ development into a center of modernism

Agenda: Sol Lewitt and Talmudic debate in New York, Jonathan Safran Foer reinterpreted in North Carolina, Chagall in Canada, and more

Agenda: Tovah Feldshuh gets old, New York City dines out for farmers, the Klezmatics play Prague, and more

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