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News How one woman’s need for toilet paper turned into a charity serving thousands
Last March, Liron Samara, an Israeli-born psychotherapist living in Los Angeles, read an article about an elderly woman who couldn’t find toilet paper at the store. It was shortly after the coronavirus pandemic had turned toilet paper into a rare and valuable commodity. Samara had just lost her 89-year-old grandmother in February, and she wanted…
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News Anti-Netanyahu protests spread to L.A. and other U.S. cities
Waving signs reading “Crime Minister Bibi,” “Bibi Step Down” and “You are corrupted and tired. Go home!” dozens of Israelis rallied outside the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, calling for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign. The August 9 evening gathering was held as protests in multiple American cities and around the…
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News A USC student leader resigns amid accusations that her Zionism ‘made her complicit in racism’
The newly-elected vice president of the University of Southern California student government resigned on Wednesday, following accusations that she is a racist for her support of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Rose Ritch, a senior from San Francisco who was elected by the student body in February, said in an open letter to the USC…
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News Kristalnacht in L.A. and other digital lies
The first time I received an e-mail decrying the outbreaks of pogroms in Los Angeles, I read as far as the all-caps title,”KRISTALLNACHT 2020 – DOES ANYONE CARE?” and no further. The second time, I read down to the part where the writer, Rabbi Yakov Saacks of The Chai Center in Dix Hills, compared the…
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News Two months after Black Lives Matter march, police confiscate cars of peaceful protesters
The last light of sunset lingered as Lena August walked down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena after celebrating her mother’s birthday at a Mexican restaurant. As she approached her car, she noticed a law enforcement vehicle double-parked next to hers. As soon as she turned the ignition, the glare of police lights flashed in her eyes….
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Community I’m a Zionist. Here’s why I protested in L.A. against annexation
I protested in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles last Sunday. I never thought that I would do that. In doing so I allied myself with the thousands of Israelis who have been rallying in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his annexation plan. Just like them, I support…
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News At USC names of racists come down, the name of an anti-Semite stays up
As a national reexamination of monuments and memorials of flawed heroes moves along, the University of Southern California has accelerated its own efforts, aimed at past leaders whose credentials may appear ugly in the spotlight of today. Prominent among potential targets: racists. Not so prominent: anti-Semites, a fact that has many on campus concerned. Already,…
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News Jessie Kornberg, incoming Skirball Cultural Center CEO, will focus on race and immigration
In the early 2000s, Jessie Kornberg worked on homelessness and children in poverty issues in New York City. After law school at UCLA and clerking for a federal judge in Memphis, she returned to Los Angeles and founded, Ms. JD, a non-profit supporting women law students and lawyers. Later, she became a trial attorney with…
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