Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Breaking News

L.A. Hotel Owner Shut Jewish Pool Party

The owner of the Shangri-La Hotel in Los Angeles is on trial in a civil rights suit based on claims of anti-Semitism.

The hotel owner, Tehmina Adaya, is accused of shutting down a pool party at the hotel for Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces in July 2010, according to the New York Times.

The Times reported that the event’s organizer, Scott Paletz of Platinum Events, testified that Adaya “was acting out with anti-Semitism against the group.” He said that the announcement shutting down the event came with an anti-Semitic slur.

“Being that I’m Jewish, it absolutely shocked me,” Mr. Paletz testified, according to the Times. “I felt really small.”

Paletz testified that hotel employees told him that the event was being cancelled because many of Adaya’s investors were Muslim.

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..

Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.

—  Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO

Join our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.