From the Los Angeles Times:

For Los Angeles Jews, Trump is a rallying cry the community hasn’t seen in decades Ben Poston The rise of President Trump has sparked a new streak of activism in Los Angeles’ Jewish community that many veteran leaders say they haven’t seem in decades. Jewish leaders in the religious, political and cultural worlds have formed a coalition aimed at denouncing what they perceived to be threats to religious tolerance, democratic values, equal rights and a free press. Trump’s rhetoric and actions toward Muslim immigrants was the impetus for the coalition, known as Jews United for Democracy and Justice, said Rabbi Ken Chasen. “There a uniqueness to this moment,” said Chasen, senior rabbi at Leo Baeck Temple in Bel-Air. “Jews understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us. People who are at risk — particularly immigrants — that is a clarion call to Jews. Our concerns about the treatment of immigrants are not partisan or political, they’re Jewish. The single most frequently repeated command in the Torah is to care for the stranger, because Jews know what it’s like to be the stranger.” … Jewish groups across the country have interpreted Trump’s travel bans targeting migrants from Muslim-majority countries as a call to action. For many Jews, the policies have evoked painful memories of the countries that turned them away when they tried to flee Nazi persecution. Some in the Jewish community fear America’s reputation as a welcoming place for refugees is being irreparably damaged as Trump has ordered a temporary ban on refugees from around the world. The Iran-Iraq War forced Sam Yebri’s family to flee Iran and into exile in the United States when he a child in the early 1980s.

Meanwhile, from the Volokh Conspiracy blog in the Washington Post: