Rebecca Spence
By Rebecca Spence
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News Debate Underscores Orthodox Community’s Rightward Drift
Los Angeles – At a recent debate over which party should receive the Orthodox Jewish vote, the strongest Democratic Party defender was a man who once headed up Democrats for Richard Nixon and later supported former Republican senator Alfonse D’Amato. The debate, held here at the Orthodox Union’s West Coast Torah Convention, pitted Democrat David…
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News University Dispels Rumor Spread Online
Officials at the University of Kentucky are trying to dispel a myth circulating on the Internet that it has canceled its Holocaust-related classes due to pressure from Muslim students. Last April, the online rumor-mill began churning when someone mistook the letters “UK,” signifying the United Kingdom, for the University of Kentucky and amended a chain…
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News Baptist From Virginia Toils for Jewish Library in Vilnius
San Diego — If one longtime San Diego resident fulfills his life’s dream, Vilnius, Lithuania, will once again emerge as a capital of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. But the man in question is a strange candidate for the task: He is neither a Yiddish scholar nor a Holocaust survivor, nor is he a descendant…
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News L.A.’s First Holocaust Museum To Expand
Los Angeles — The City of Los Angeles may be known for its sprawl, but is it so vast that it needs not one but two major Holocaust museums? That is the question being raised as the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, a 46-year-old institution that has yet to find a permanent home, is…
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News Disney Titan Brings Tough Talk to West Coast Federation
Los Angeles — In the mid-1980s, when corporate raiders threatened to wrest control of the Walt Disney Co., a longtime adviser to Roy Disney named Stanley Gold emerged as an unlikely hero. With his muscular, take-no-prisoners tactics, Gold successfully warded off the threat of a hostile takeover and instated new leadership at the troubled company….
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News Jewish Neighbors Confront Expanding Jewish Museum
Los Angeles — As the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance tries to expand its reach, it is facing opposition on two fronts. The Los Angeles-based Holocaust remembrance museum is taking heat from its neighbors — the vast majority of them Jewish — for its plans to build a “cultural center” as an addition to…
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News Leader of Hollywood Union Strike Follows a More Traditional Script
Los Angeles – At the end of a long day of picketing, a top leader at the writers’ union scrambled to recite his afternoon prayers on a side street just around the corner from Culver Studios, where he had been marching and chanting union slogans for hours, his yarmulke in full view. David N. Weiss,…
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Israel News Kosher Fashion in L.A.
First came kosher meat and kosher wine, and now comes… kosher fashion? Last Sunday, a group of liberal Jews gathered in Los Angeles for a fashion show promoting “kosher” clothing — that is, garments not produced in sweatshops. Some 300 Jews, predominantly in their 20s and 30s, turned out at “Rags to Righteousness” to peruse…
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