(JTA) — A female student at the University of California, Los Angeles has sued the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity there and one of the fraternity’s former members, accusing him of sexual assault. The accuser, who is remaining anonymous in the lawsuit, says that Blake Lobato, a ZBT brother, forcibly penetrated her while she was drunk…
(JTA) — A Republican candidate for governor in California said he’d stop comparing wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles to the experience of Holocaust survivors. John Cox had come under fire for telling a story Wednesday about a Holocaust survivor who complained about the long lines when the two met at a DMV in…
Patrick Little, the neo-Nazi who claims Jews conspired to stop him from winning a U.S. Senate race in California, says he plans to establish a “regional capital” in northern Idaho, the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington reported. His publicity tactic is familiar — anti-Semitic robocalls. Residents in Sandpoint, Idaho, said they received automated phone messages from…
A synagogue sits in the path of the deadliest fire to rage through California so far this year. Its Torah, however, remains safe. The Carr Fire has burned more than 116,000 acres near the Northern California city of Redding since July 26, the New York Times reported, destroying roughly 1,000 homes — including those of…
A father killed while camping with his two young daughters in California was shot once in the head, a coroner’s office official said Wednesday, citing an autopsy. Tristan Beaudette’s death, at the end of June, was ruled a homicide, CNN reported. The 35-year-old from Irvine, California, had been camping with his 2- and 4-year-old daughters…
California Republican John Fitzgerald claims the robocalls received by people in the Bay Area — declaring that Jews are taking over America — are “unauthorized” and a “smear against” his campaign. Although the call’s message is consistent with his anti-Semitic rhetoric — he’s an known Holocaust denier — Fitzgerald denied responsibility, writing on his congressional…
Robocalls in support of California congressional candidate John Fitzgerald assert that Jews are taking over the world and ‘must be stopped.’ Robert Gammon, business development director for Telegraph Media, tweeted Tuesday that he received one of the calls from Fitzgerald, the GOP candidate for the 11th district. He said it was “easily the most racist…
A Democratic candidate for California’s state assembly praised the anti-Semitic and homophobic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Facebook and accused Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians. Maria Estrada is running in District 63 in Los Angeles’ southeast suburbs. In a comment last year on a thread about Farrakhan’s infamous interview with Mike…
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