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News Life in the time of corona: L.A. portraits
No one has been left unscathed from the effect of the coronavirus, from storeowners to rock-and-roll guitarists. Los Angeles-based writer and photographer Ayala Or-El captured some of the stories shared by members of the L.A. Jewish community. Sean Hurwitz, guitar player for the band Smash Mouth The news that his livelihood is in jeopardy caught…
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Fast Forward ‘F**k Kikes’ spray-painted on Los Angeles synagogue
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on a synagogue in Los Angeles. “F**k Kikes” followed by “Daniel M” was painted on the outside of the Ahavat Shalom synagogue, an Orthodox Persian synagogue. A photo of the graffitied synagogue was first posted on Facebook Tuesday by a sports management student at the University of Delaware who…
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Fast Forward L.A. Jewish day school donates 2,000 N95 masks
(JTA) — A Jewish day school in Los Angeles donated 2,000 N95 face masks to a local medical center and to local police. The de Toledo High School in the West Hills neighborhood said in a statement that while doing a thorough cleaning of the campus, it found boxes of the masks purchased for the…
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Fast Forward LA-area condo owner ordered to remove swastika
(JTA) — The Jewish mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has ordered a local condo owner to remove material posted on his balcony that includes swastikas and threats against the president. “This type of material and language has no place in our community and we are working tirelessly to get the material taken down,” Mayor…
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Culture At an L.A. children’s museum, a universal story with Jewish origins
Directly above the Disney Store and just across from the Cheesecake Factory on the top level of the outdoor Santa Monica Place mall, the Cayton Children’s Museum looks out onto a glittering central courtyard, where the mall’s oversized Christmas tree stretches up three stories. The star-topped tip sits just above eye level with the museum’s…
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Fast Forward 3 Schools In LA Spray-Painted With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Three Los Angeles schools — two of them Jewish — were tagged with anti-Semitic graffiti days after a synagogue in Beverly Hills was found vandalized. A swastika and hateful messages including the phrase “time to pay” were found spray-painted at the American Jewish University in Bel Air, the Westwood Charter School and Milken…
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Fast Forward Beverly Hills Persian Synagogue Vandalized On Shabbat, Torahs Damaged
(JTA) — A synagogue in Beverly Hills was vandalized in what police are investigating as a hate crime. At approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the Beverly Hills Police Department, a suspect described as a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue, a Persian Jewish congregation, and vandalized the sanctuary. Photos of the…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Synagogue Vandalized With ‘Free Palestine’ Graffiti
A synagogue in Los Angeles was vandalized with graffiti stating “Free Palestine” on Tuesday morning, September 11. Security footage showed a hooded man spray-painting the wall of the Baba Sale Congregation before driving away, the Jewish Journal reported. “We’re a Jewish house of worship that’s located 7,500 miles from the Middle East where this conflict…
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