Michael Janofsky
By Michael Janofsky
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News Ted Lieu, tapped to address antisemitism, points finger at Trump for stoking anti-Asian hate crime
Rep. Ted Lieu, whose Congressional district arcs across some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, many with large Jewish populations, has heard from a rising number of constituents over the same alarming issue: Antisemitism. “Over the last few years my office and I have received reports of hate crimes against Jewish-Americans,” he said in…
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News Cal State Northridge students pass resolution against antisemitism
Jonathan Hay, a junior at California State University, Northridge said his campus has not experienced any major antisemitic activities in recent years. The 4,000 Jewish students and faculty at CSUN have escaped the kinds of rhetorical and violent incidents that have disrupted other schools, synagogues and centers of Jewish life. “Friends told me about what…
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News Jewish allies praise Alex Padilla, California’s newest senator
For a long while there, California had two Jewish United States senators at the same time, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Boxer retired after four terms in 2017; Feinstein remains, as the oldest senator at 87. Now that Boxer’s successor, Kamala Harris, is about to become the next Vice President, California is getting her replacement:…
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News Who is Tal Zaks, developer of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine?
By last spring Dr. Tal Zaks had a pretty good sense that the COVID-19 vaccine under development at the biotech firm Moderna would work. It now appears he was right. Zaks is Moderna’s chief medical officer, a native Israeli whose career in medicine has been immersed in drug discovery and development. On Nov. 16, the…
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News The two young Jews behind a Biden PAC
Just three months before the presidential election, a pair young Jewish political activists formed the Jewish Unity Political Action Committee. It raised all of $31,000, and every cent of it was spent supporting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Led by the co-founders, Isabel Baer of Westchester, N.Y. and Ethan Wolf of Deerfield, Ill., the group…
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News What Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman’s victory says about the next generation of Jewish activists
Democratic-leaning as it is, Los Angeles moved a bit further to the left last week as young Jewish progressives joined like-minded activists to help a candidate supported by the Democratic Socialists of America win a seat on the 15-member City Council. Nithya Raman, an urban planner from India in her first run for public office,…
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News Local Georgia race draws Philadelphia cops, Soros and a whiff of antisemitism
George Soros, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, is back in campaign news again — as if he ever left. This time he has popped up in a controversial race in coastal Georgia, but the Philadelphia-based group behind the ads says it is targeting at least 40 candidates nationwide. In Georgia, Democratic lawyer Shalena Cook Jones is…
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News Did a maskless, post-hospital Trump violate Jewish medical ethics?
Hero or heel? On the one hand, there was President Trump, COVID-19-stricken, but waving to his adoring fans from inside a black limousine on Sunday, a photo-op joyride as a break in his three-day stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Returning to the White House a day later, he proclaimed in a Tweet…
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