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Food Kaddish for Knishes? Post-pandemic, Jewish delis face an uncertain future
“Once this whole thing is over,” my father declared, early in January, “one of the first places we have to go is to Sammy’s!” He was speaking, of course, about Sammy’s Roumanian Steakhouse, the legendary restaurant on New York’s Lower East Side known for its chopped liver, garlicky karnatzel and blackened skirt steaks, leaden latkes,…
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News On eve of second Trump trial, lawyer from first says his “Big Lie” echoes Hitler
Norm Eisen, the Constitutional lawyer who served as House counsel in the first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, said he lives by three rules his immigrant parents taught him: always be loyal, always do the right thing no matter the cost, and always serve the best hamburger you can. His immigrant parents ran a…
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News Amanda Gorman’s former mentor knows what drives her
A lot of us shed tears when Amanda Gorman recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Dinah Berland didn’t just cry, she screamed. “Oh my goodness, I was just thrilled,” Berland, a Jewish poet and author who has been a mentor to the young poet laureate. “I knew…
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News To Ruth and Judea Pearl, from Pakistan with love
Last week, I reached out to Tamara Pearl for a statement while working on a story about Pakistan’s shocking Supreme Court order to release the man who masterminded the kidnapping and murder of her brother, journalist Daniel Pearl, 19 years ago. In our short exchange, I told her to give her parents my best because…
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News Why did these rabbis seek a pardon for Elliot Broidy?
When former President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts in office, granted an executive pardon to confessed felon Elliott Broidy, the White House cited letters in Broidy’s support from some unusual sources: five Los Angeles rabbis. Broidy, a multimillionaire businessman and prominent Jewish philanthropist, pleaded guilty to illegal foreign lobbying on Oct. 20….
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News No refrigerators left: L.A.’s COVID-19 spike swamps Jewish mortuaries
On one recent Saturday night, mortuary director Moe Goldsman got his first call at 10 p.m., his second at 12:30 a.m., and his third at 1:45 a.m. He worked through the night and went to sleep at dawn. With coronavirus numbers skyrocketing in Southern California since Thanksgiving, Goldsman’s Sholom Mortuary is struggling to keep pace…
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News A police crackdown in a Black neighborhood paved the way for a Jewish resurgence
The exodus of Black residents from La Cienega Heights reflects a broader trend of Black migration out of L.A.’s core
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News California faith leaders call for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to resign
A coalition of interfaith leaders have signed on to an online petition calling for the resignation of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, saying his support for President Donald Trump’s claims about election fraud undermined the Constitution and helped create the hostile environment leading to last week’s deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol. “We believe in…
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