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Fast Forward Vandal attacks L.A. synagogue, kosher restaurant
A vandal carrying a box of concrete slabs targeted an Orthodox synagogue and a kosher steakhouse in Los Angeles Thursday night, adding to a spate of attacks on American Jewish communities in the wake of the Israel/Gaza conflict. Young Israel of Century City and Pat’s Restaurant a few hundred feet from each other at the…
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News Second suspect arrested in L.A. antisemitic attack
Two men have now been arrested in connection with what police say was an antisemitic attack on a group of Jewish men in Los Angeles earlier this month. Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division took Samer Jayylusi into custody on May 25 in the Orange County city of Anaheim, though they say…
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Community Our fellow rabbinical students are wrong to criticize Israel when it’s under attack
This is an open letter from Jewish seminary students to their fellow students who have been publicly critical of Israel during the latest conflict. On May 13, the Forward published a letter signed by scores of rabbinic and cantorial students criticizing Israel for its response in the recent Gaza conflict. Rabbi Bradley Artson, dean of…
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News L.A. group Magen Am organizes for defense of Jews
Rabbi Yossi Eilfort wants you to understand that there are more antisemitic incidents than you think. “I hear stories all the time, like the rabbi who was walking with his pregnant wife and his son to shul and someone called them names, used profanities and tried to intimidate them,” he said. Eilfort’s story couldn’t be…
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News Suspect arrested in attack on Jews as mayor, Muslim community weigh in
Police have arrested a suspect in connection to the assault on Jewish diners at Sushi Fumi restaurant in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles. Xavier Pabon, 30, has been booked for assault with a deadly weapon. Pabon was taken into custody at 10:15 p.m. Friday at his home in Banning, just outside Los Angeles….
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News During Gaza violence, an L.A. Muslim-Jewish group grapples with tension
(Ed. Note. This story was updated May 21.) As violence escalated in Gaza all week, the Muslim-Jewish coalition NewGround called for people “to struggle out loud, and together.” “We do not know the immediate path through this, but we are certain that until we humanize one another, there won’t be a path at all,” the…
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Community The letter some of my rabbinical students wrote shows a lack of empathy—with Jews
This is an open letter from the dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Rabbi Bradley S. Artson. It comes in response to a letter signed by scores of rabbinic and cantorial students at Ziegler and other schools, which the Forward published on May 13. Dear Hevrei,…
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Opinion What can we do to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Stay out of it
On Sunday night a new front opened up in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict: John Oliver’s mouth. The comedian, whose commentary segments on his “Last Week Tonight” HBO series often out-report reporters, this time slammed Israel in its week-long battle against Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza. “Multiple children have been killed this week…
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