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News Lessons from our father, one bag of ‘fish’ at a time
For Father’s Day, I recently spoke with Dena Schechter and Mel Levine about their father, Sid Levine, who died in 1995 at the age of 82. I had interviewed Sid years ago for the documentary, “Meet Me at Brooklyn & Soto,” about the East Los Angeles Jewish community where he grew up. He described the…
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News Fake news and social media exaggerate L.A. protest anti-semitism, say local leaders
The Jews of Los Angeles are not under siege– though some media outlets would have you believe otherwise. Local synagogues, day schools, and Jewish-owned businesses are facing thousands of dollars worth of repairs after vandalism that occurred during the protests over the killing George Floyd. But, officials from the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and…
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News Family of Jewish businessman executed by the Iranian regime speaks out, 40 years later
On June 5, 1980, Hilda Hay walked into the morgue of Tehran’s Jewish cemetery and saw the badly beaten and bloody corpse of her husband, Albert Danialpour, lying on the table. “Overnight I became a young widow. My young children, who were ages five, seven and nine, lost their father, and we became poor when…
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Fast Forward Cut LAPD by $150M, says L.A. mayor who sees struggle against police brutality as ‘Jewish’ one
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that he is looking to cut up to $150 million from the budget of the Los Angeles Police Department, a reversal from his previous plans to boost their spending by 7%. Garcetti, who is Jewish, said in a press conference that those savings would go towards “reinvesting in…
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News Black Lives Matter. Unless they’re homeless
By the time I caught up to the 500 or more people marching in Venice on behalf of Black Lives Matter, they were turning east in front of a narrow traffic island near the Venice Public Library, chanting “No justice, no peace! No justice, no peace!” My iPhone camera caught the whole scene, and it…
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News Mayor Eric Garcetti on the George Floyd protests: ‘This is a Jewish struggle’
As protests over racial injustice stretched into another day under the shadow of the enduring coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles encouraged the city’s Jewish community to increase efforts to address the underlying causes of a fracturing American society. “Be brave. Step up. Step out. Do something. Listen. Learn. Hope. Love. Our current…
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News ‘Dialogue is needed:’ An L.A. city council member speaks out after the protests
Apart from areas of downtown, no other part of Los Angeles has suffered so grievously in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis as the Fifth City Council District. “We have a lot of white people in my district and we have a lot of businesses, some of them high-value targets; there was good…
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News After a night of looting, L.A. store owners ask, ‘Where is the justice for all the business owners they robbed?’
The Beverly-Fairfax district, a center of Jewish life in Los Angeles, was hit hard during the protests that rocked the city May 30 and May 31. Many Jewish stores in the area were vandalized and looted, among them, Ariel Glatt Kosher Market, Mensch Bakery and Syd’s Pharmacy and Kosher market. Some synagogues in the area…
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