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News Karen Bass on Ilhan Omar, L.A. Jewry, homelessness, and her daughter’s memory
It was just before Thanksgiving when I sat down with Rep. Karen Bass to talk about her campaign for mayor of Los Angeles. The Homegirl Cafe where we met downtown was doing a brisk business in whole pies and turkey-shaped bread. “The holiday times are the worst for me,” she said. “I just wish I…
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Food She beat drugs, found love, and makes L.A.’s best Jewish-Mexican pastrami taco
When Elizabeth Heitner, 26 years old and newly sober, stared at the Pacific Ocean and contemplated what to do next, she thought back to her happiest times growing up. For some families, holiday dinners require days of brining, chopping and parboiling. For the Heitners in their Upper East Side apartment, a Passover seder or a…
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Fast Forward ‘Goyim Defense League’ blamed for antisemitic flyers in Beverly Hills
Several residents of Beverly Hills discovered an early Hanukkah present in their driveways Sunday morning: a flyer blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic. The propaganda appears to be the work of the Goyim Defense League, which the Anti-Defamation League describes as “a small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs” that operates a hate-streaming website and organizes…
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News Meet Emma Rosenzweig-Bock, the dancer featured in Sia’s Christmas song video, ‘Pin Drop’
When Emma Rosenzweig-Bock joined Jacob Jonas The Company in 2017, she never imagined that she’d end 2021 as a featured dancer in a Sia music video. “Pin Drop,” the video that premiered last week, features the Santa Monica, California native and other Jacob Jonas dancers interacting with an environment of sand and haze set to…
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Culture Fried chicken & waffles, a South L.A. tradition, goes kosher
Update, 3/18/22: Melrose Bite announced today it was no longer kosher in an Instagram post. It’s the dawn of Kosher Food 3.0, at least in Los Angeles. Out with pastrami on rye and matzo ball soup. In with chicken-and-waffles. Yes — kosher chicken-and-waffles. The arrival of Melrose Bite, a kosher fried chicken joint in the…
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News Why Jews, yes, Jews, should join L.A.’s street vendors struggle
I was standing on the sidewalk waiting my turn at Tacos La Guera, a street vending stand that sets up each evening between a Whole Foods parking lot and the four lane cacophony that is Lincoln Boulevard. “How many tacos?” a young man named Rafael asked me, pressing a 12-inch chef’s knife against a massive…
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News An L.A. museum puts the saga of Soviet Jewry on display
In the dark days of the Cold War, photographer Bill Aron, the son of a Russian émigré to Philadelphia, traveled to the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Leningrad, and Minsk, he took portraits of refuseniks— Soviet Jews who were demanding their freedom— as well as photographs of the Jewish synagogues and those worshipping there. Starting Nov….
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News Sarah Silverman shows up for ‘kick-ass’ sister Susan’s foster and adoption cause
You know the headliner must be really important when her warm-up act is Sarah Silverman. “Without further ado, a Jew,” the comedian said as she introduced her sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman. The Oct. 3 celebrity-studded event at the home of actors Bradley Whitford and Amy Landecker was a fundraiser for the rabbi’s organization, Second Nurture,…
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Yiddish דער נײַער ייִדישער נוסח פֿון חנוכּה־ליד „לעשט ניט די ליכטלעך אויס“New Yiddish version of the Hanukkah song ‘Light One Candle‘
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