Si Frumkin appeared on a number of TV and radio shows and has contributed articles to countless magazines and newspapers. Si Frumkin taught a number of college level courses on Eastern Europe, Jewish history, and the Middle East. In Los Angeles Si Frumkin worked closely with Zev Yaroslavsky who was SCCSJ executive director for 5 years and who headed the Calif. Students for Soviet Jews before being elected to L.A. City Council, and in 1995 to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
Si Frumkin is currently the associate editor and columnist for the California-based Russian-language weekly 'Panorama', as well as a free-lance contributor to a number of national and international publications Si Frumkin founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews - an independent activist organization
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Welcome to Si Frumkin web site! Los Angeles Panorama. Si Frumkin lives now in Los Angeles Si Frumkin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Si Frumkin had been appointed to the L.A. City Human Relations Commission in 1993, and in 2002 to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Board.

Here you will find materials that Si Frumkin found interesting and wanted to share with you. Some will be in Russian, others in English or whatever language you ask for and Si is fluent in and has a font for. (He does speak Yiddish but doesn’t have a Yiddish font. German is OK. Lithuanian, Spanish and Italian are marginal).  The topics are, well, just about anything – wisdom, stupidity, cartoons, personal reminiscences, pictures, jokes and whatever else strikes Si’s fancy. Feel free to go to the “Contact Us” page and express your approval or disapproving and hostile disgust – everything will be read and probably not responded to, but be sure that you will have made an impression on Si who is very sensitive, thoughtful, wise, well-intentioned, dedicated, honorable, intelligent, compassionate, honest, drinks vodka martinis – stirred but not shaken, drives a Corvette, has a great sense of humor and lovely hair and is, above all, extremely modest. So write away and if you want to hurt my feelings by thoughtless criticism – go ahead.

I did I say that I am very sensitive, didn’t I…?

  • April 2008 - THE END OF THE CHINESE MIRACLE - By Gordon G. Chang, Commentary magazine, March 2008. Most often when scholars write learned articles they end up practically unreadable by ordinary mortals. Not this one. Witten by one of the more distinguished Chian experts and published in one of the more respected monthly journals, it is a pleasure to read and has much that most of us didn't know. It exposes the China economic bubble for what it really is and should change some of the preconceptions we have about the Chinese giant.
  • April 2008 - OBAMA THE SAVIOR - By Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Report, April 22, 2008 A thought provoking analysis of the Obama magic that has taken hold of American younger masses - a promise of a strong charismatic leader who will redeem us all through obedience, enthusiasm and marching in step towards a bright future and a happier life in a reborn society. Sounds familiar? Remember the masses that marched in step in Europe in the 1920s and 30s? Remember the great societies created by charismatic leaders and how they ended? You may disagree but it is something that should be read and thought about.
  • THE OBAMA AESTHETIC - From www.americanthinker.com (a very good source for another point of view) by Thomas Lifson. It examines the agenda of his campaign policy and comes to some very surprising and provocative conclusions that include Soviet medals, proletarian art and Alinskyite influence (Don't know who Saul Alinsky was? Look it up on Google or Wikipedia on the birth of the American labor movement).
  • April 2008 - Still Feeding the World - By Paul Driessen. During the “Eat This” segment of their docu-comedy series BS, Penn Jillette beat Teller in a round of their “Greatest Person in History” card game. Penn needed just one card: Norman Borlaug.
  • April 2008 - AMERICA'S COALITION CONFUSION - By Caroline Glick. The problem is that our Arab allies hate Israel more than Iran and what Hillary - and, lately, Condy Rice as well - intend to do about it.
  • PBIP: THE APPROACH AND OUTBREAK OF POLAR BEAR INDUCED PARALYSIS! By Hugh Hewitt, 3/27/08. The surprising and worldwide results of the polar bear "crisis" that would affect all of us.
  • HILLARY'S LIST OF LIES - By Dick Morris 3/27/08. An interesting and surprising (well, maybe not too surprising) list of lies (or maybe just misspeakings?)
  • ISRAEL'S DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE - New York Sun, 3/11/2008 - Is it proportionate to respond with jam, cocoa, toilet paper and oil to rockets? What torture! What cruelty!
  • January 2008 - THE UNKNOWN BLACK BOOK - WITNESSES TO HORROR - A review of an important book that tells a story that had been hidden for decades. Wall Sreet Journal, January 19-20, 2008, page W8.
  • January 2008 - WHOSE PICTURE SHOULD BE ON THE WALL? - By Sergey Baymukhametov - Is this communism with a different face? Is Putin really St Paul and Superman? How can there be a 98.5% voter turnout if 30% didn't even vote?
  • Декабрь 2007 - ТЕНЬ ПОБЕДЫ - Заметки российского наблюдателя - Panorama weekly, 7080 Hollywood Blvd., #504, Los Angeles CA 90028 - 323-463-7224
  • December 2007 - SADDAM'S DAMN DAM - Daniel Pipes - Another crisis/disaster you probably will not hear about until it happens and it is too late. One thing is sure - the U.S. will blamed even though we had nothing to do with it.
  • Предвосхищать действия террористов или нет? - Даниэль Пайпс. 
  • THE RISE OF THE FANTASISTS - By Caroline Glick, one of the more incisive and wise Jerusalem Post columnists. In this important piece she analyzes the real dangers of fantasies replacing reality ion U.S. and Israel's foreign policies.
  • WATCHING AL JAZEERA - PART 1 - By Robert Avrech, a writer for TV and movies who actually sat through the whole three parts of the special about "God's Soldiers" - Jews, Christians and Muslims - produced and narrated by Christina Amanpour on CNN in August 2007. He then wrote this piece which made me laugh out loud - even though tears would have been more appropriate, I think. Take a look at it - it's worth it.
  • "Israel's Groundhog Day", by Steven Shanok, March 2007. Very concise and factual information presented in an easy to read and understand form.
  • ГЛАГОЛОМ  ЖЕЧЬ  СЕРДЦА ДО  САМОГО  КОНЦА - Александр МАТЛИН, Посвящается моим друзьям – эмигрантам из России.
  • ДЖИММИ КАРТЕР СВОДИТ СЧЕТЫ - Виктор Вольский, “Презумпция невиновности на святых не распространяется” (Джордж Оруэлл).

  • ПРЕДУПРЕДИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ВЫСТРЕЛ - Виктор Вольский, Йорктаун, Вирджиния Проблемы кандидата на Белый Дом.
  • Si Frumkin and Glenn Richter honored for efforts in liberating Soviet Jews - A press release by Cohon Memorial Foundation, December 28, 2006. Reproduced here with thanks to all who made this possible, especially the tens of thousands of you who came to the demonstrations, wrote the letters, made the phone calls, pressured the politicians and the Jewish makhers - acted! - causing this second Exodus of a million and a half Jews from contemporary Pharaohs to take place. They are the real heroes.
  • "The New Zionist Occupiers" - A very informative column by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post, December 28, 2006.
  • A license to drive just may be a license to kill! - by Michelle Malkin
    Next time you are stuck behind a truck carrying explosives, the driver may be a terrorist with a legal license to transport hazardous materials Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist in over 200 papers. She is a prolific author and known for controversial and provocative views.
  • Hollywood economics - The anti-business irony. - by Professor Thomas Sowell
    Professor Sowell is one of the more distinguished American economists and is currently teaching at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He has written extensively on economics, human rights and racial questions and is thoroughly disliked by the self-elected black "leaders" for confronting their politically correct black racism.
  • New Mexico's little known Crypto-Jews. - by Matt Crenson of Associated press.
    This is a very brief overview of the Catholic Jews of New Mexico who escaped Mexico's Inquisition 400-500 years ago and kept many Jewish traditions in spite of being ignorant of Judaism.
  • "Surrender as 'Realism'", by Robert Kagan and William Cristol, "Weekly Standard" editorial, December 5, 2006.
    A clear and reasonable - but sure to be controversial - explanation of the solutions for Iraq as proposed by "Realists".
  • “Israel's 'Brand' In the World - What it Means”, by Larry Weinberg, executive V.P of Israel 21st Century (Israel 21c)
  • “Rebranding Israel - Jewish State Looking at Image Makeover” by Dina Kraft, JTA, Tel Aviv.

    		• Si Frumkin publishes Graffiti for Intellectuals - a biweekely newsletter.
    home of Si Frumkin website In 1989 Si Frumkin participated in the first-ever Union of Councils meeting in the Soviet Union, visited several cities, and met hundreds of Soviet Jewish activists.
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    Candlelight Walk for the Soviet Jews in Los Angeles in December 1969.
    Si Frumkin has been very involved in legislation and campaigns dealing with restitution to Holocaust survivors worldwide