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News Younes Nazarian, an Iranian Jewish philanthropist who galvanized Israel support, dies at 91
Younes Nazarian, an Iranian-Jewish community leader and self-made billionaire philanthropist, died March 18 in Los Angeles. He was 91. Local Iranian-Jewish community members remembered Nazarian as a pro-Israel advocate who gave millions to organizations in Israel as well as to Jewish and non-Jewish causes in Southern California. “He truly believed that strengthening Israel was the…
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Fast Forward ‘Free the gays:’ Orthodox high schoolers, led by rabbi, take Purim skit too far
With Purim approaching last week, a number of Jewish organizations collaborated on a flyer that encouraged people to exercise sensitivity in their costumes. But one Orthodox high school didn’t get the memo. In a video that circulated on social media Tuesday, boys from Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles, or YULA, dressed up for…
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News Why some Holocaust survivors mourn Ukraine, while others support Putin.
When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, Roza Nemirovskaya, then 16 years old, was forced to flee her hometown Ternivka in western Ukraine before hundreds of Jews were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave. Not in her worst nightmare, she said, could she have imagined another devastating war in her homeland during her lifetime….
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Food An L.A. doctor revives the tradition of Persian Jewish winemaking
Wine flows freely in the ancient story of Purim, which takes place in ancient Persian. Buzzed on wine, King Ahasuerus asks the beautiful Vashti to come party. At two other wine-soaked feasts, the heroine Esther sways the king against the evil Haman. Wine all but disappeared from modern-day Iran following the country’s takeover by Muslim…
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News Victim in alleged antisemitic attack in Los Angeles sues two accused assailants
A man at the center of an alleged antisemitic hate crime during a pro-Palestinian protest in Los Angeles last spring has sued the two men accused of attacking him, seeking damages for an assault his lawyers say was a pre-planned hate crime conspiracy. The lawsuit filed Monday by lawyers for Mher Hagopian describes him as…
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News A Ukrainian immigrant in L.A. fights Putin with poetry
Watching Russian missiles slam into Ukrainian cities, seeing that 40-mile long Russian army convoy snaking its way toward Kyiv — it’s frightening, frustrating and debilitating. As tragedy unfolds in slow motion, there’s so little, really, that any of us can do. It’s like watching a child drown, the Russian author Maxim Osipov wrote, when you…
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News ‘It’s like having your hands and legs tied and your eyes wide open’: a Russian Jew in L.A.
Anastasia Shostak always expected to celebrate on the day she became a United States citizen. But on the day it happened — yesterday — the Russian-born Los Angeles resident’s thoughts were thousands of miles away— 6,337, to be exact— in Sumy, the northeastern Ukrainian city where her family is hiding in a neighbor’s basement. “If…
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News When Jewish institutions hang a ‘For Sale’ sign
When American Jewish University announced last week that it planned to sell its campus, there were, as you might imagine, more questions than answers. How can a major Jewish institution put one of its greatest assets on the block overnight? Did the families who gave multimillion dollar gifts to expand and sustain the campus know…
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