Dossier 02 · Israel & Jewish affairs

From Jerusalem
to Los Angeles

Israel, diaspora and the argument over belonging.

The Los Angeles Times
The Jerusalem Report
Hadassah
Jewish Journal
Present Tense

Israel appears here within a wider Jewish, American, cultural and technological world. Reporting from both Israel and Los Angeles, Teitelbaum follows people, institutions and ideas across borders, asking how belonging changes with the place from which it is observed.

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Israel, diaspora & immigration

8 articles

The Jerusalem Report · November 15, 1990

Down West

Jewish life in California

6 articles

Politics & technology

7 articles

Film, literature & culture

6 articles

Holocaust memory

4 articles

Present Tense

3 articles

Los Angeles correspondent · c. 1986/87–1990

Present Tense was the American Jewish Committee’s magazine of world Jewish affairs, published from 1973 to 1990 and edited by Murray Polner. It covered Jewish communities, Israel, politics, religion and culture, with a liberal editorial outlook.

Teitelbaum served as the magazine’s Los Angeles correspondent.

Magazine history

Three articles · 1988–1989

Present Tense · March–April 1989

Present Tense · March–April 1989

They Love America

Israelis in southern California have finally arrived.

Present Tense collection

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