A year into the pandemic, every organization has its COVID-19 pivot stories, but some had to pivot harder than others. At Beit T’Shuvah — the Los Angeles-based treatment center that uses a comprehensive program of Jewish spirituality, psychotherapy, and the 12-Steps of recovery – the robust in-person community was always a core part of the…
Los Angeles police have no motive for the brutal slaying of 104 year-old Youssef Mahboubian, discovered in his Encino, California home on March 18, bludgeoned to death by a suspect armed with an axe and a knife. Mahboubian was a beloved father and grandfather whose family is active in the Los Angeles Jewish community. Los…
The California State Board of Education voted on Thursday to approve the most recent draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. The vote follows four years of contentious debate and objections leveled against the curriculum by Jewish organizations across the political spectrum. Nearly five years ago, California passed a bill, AB 2016, mandating a commission…
For California education activists across the political spectrum, Thursday marks what Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, the chair of the state’s Jewish caucus, recently called the “end of the beginning.” After more than four years of heated controversy, on March 18 the California Department of Education will vote on the fourth and most likely final draft of…
The Fresno Police Department has launched an investigation after video footage and photos shared widely online showed one of its officers attending Proud Boys protests. The department did not name the officer in its statement on Sunday announcing the probe and subsequent press releases, but the Fresno Bee reported him to be Officer Rick Fitzgerald….
The undergraduate student-government organization at University of California, Los Angeles has unanimously passed a resolution calling on the UC system to divest from companies that allegedly profit off the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, prompting UCLA pro-Israel groups to issue a statement saying they were left in the dark about the resolution’s true, anti-Israel…
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…
When he died on Valentine’s Day 2021 after a battle with leukemia, pop singer and LGBTQ+ activist Ari Gold left behind a legacy of love and pride in both his gay and Jewish identity. “He was a gay icon from a frum background,” said producer Howard (Zvi) Rosenman, a longtime friend of the Gold family…
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