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Blackstone, Apollo Global Management and Carlyle Group built up sharply different portfolios before and during the pandemic. Some have wagered on resumption of normal life while others see lasting change.

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The Day Kobe Bryant Died David Suissa is President of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold his company in 2006 to devote himself full time to his first passion: Israel and the Jewis...

The House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the US Capitol. Photo: Flickr. Over the last year, much of the political rancor involving the US-Israel relationship was focused on the presidential race. Yet historiographical evidence reveals that Congress plays an extremely important role in the US-Israel relationship. In 1981, an intense lobbying effort on the part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) helped convince the Reagan administration to abandon an $8.5...

Although many events were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, organiser for Poetry...

The Day Kobe Bryant Died David Suissa is President of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold his company in 2006 to devote himself full time to his first passion: Israel and the Jewis...

Big mistake. “We don’t celebrate Christmas,” Lam snapped on their way out of the store. “Happy Hanukkah!” The Los Angeles screenwriter and producer, now 45, can’t help but laugh at that brief exchange — both because of his unfiltered childhood behavior and his fiery spirit to represent his Jewish culture that still burns within him like candles on a menorah. Advertisement “I guess it’s always kind of been ingrained in me that Hanukkah needed a little boost,” he said during a...

Stephen Wise Temple Hosts Drive-Thru ‘LIT Hanukkah’ Light Show Experience When writer and producer Michael Lam was a kid, he asked his dad, Stephen Wise Temple’s Cantor Nathan Lam, why they didn’t decorate their house with lights for Hanukkah when it was supposed to be the Festival of Lights. “Hanukkah is supposed to be fun, it’s a party,” Lam, now 45 said, remembering the yearly discussion. “I always thought, ‘we should be allowed to put lights up.�...