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Fast Forward Jim Murez enters Los Angeles City Council race
The hotly contested race to represent Los Angeles City Council District 11 just got hotter. Jim Murez announced he would be competing for the seat currently held by Mike Bonin. Murez, who is president of the Venice Neighborhood Council, made the announcement via a press release on Jan. 6, the one year anniversary of the…
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News What will be the Top Jewish Headlines of 2022? Here are your predictions
There were some major Jewish headlines in 2021: A Jewish First Gentleman moved into the Vice President’s mansion; Israeli-Palestinian violence claimed hundreds of lives; Benyamin Netanyahu was voted out; the Delta variant kept most synagogue life virtual; Mel Gibson returned — and many more. So what events will dominate the news cycle in 2022? We…
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Culture Pee-wee Herman, a Hallmark Hanukkah and more movies to watch this Christmas
This year for sure, we all fervently hoped we would be able to return to the dim, dank and sticky sanctuary of our local multiplex and engage in that most hallowed Jewish custom: A movie on Christmas. Man plans, Hashem laughs. With a new, super-transmissible variant of the coronavirus rampaging through the world, many still…
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News Your turn: Readers share their stories of epic typos
Not one but two people had embarrassing stories of “public” being printed – very publicly – without the “l.” Another misspelled “Holocaust” throughout his master’s thesis. Many shared tales of auto-correct gone wrong, or tips on how to (try) to catch mistakes before hitting send. There were those who sent emails riddled with spelling errors…
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News 21 Jewish moments of 2021
Time can be a funny thing. “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion,” Albert Einstein once said. That seems like a pretty good description of the year that was. The past twelve months have, at times, felt like so much more. America and Israel both got new leaders and…
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News Your turn: Readers share (strong) feelings about Christmas, Hanukkah and the so-called ‘holiday season’
In her latest “Looking Forward” column, our editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren, went on something of a rant about a new Old Navy commercial purporting to celebrate the “ALL-idays” but in fact redolent of the colors, symbols and sayings of Christmas. Rudoren acknowledged that she has always had a big Christmas chip on her shoulder, and said…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump: ‘I could run for prime minister of Israel’
(JTA) — Former President Donald Trump told a conservative Jewish radio host that Israel until recently “literally owned Congress,” a claim similar to those that have triggered accusations of antisemitism against other politicians. The comments came during Trump’s Oct. 29 interview with Seattle-based talk show host Ari Hoffman as Trump was reviewing his Middle East…
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Culture October 28: Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic?
This conversation will take place on Thursday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT. Register here. It’s a graph that seems almost impossible to calculate, an advanced mathematical problem that must include 5,000 years of history, centuries of bigotry, humiliations, oppression, expulsions, political manipulations and a single piece of land on which…
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