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Fast Forward Israel’s David Blatt Vies for Los Angeles Lakers Coaching Gig
David Blatt, the Israeli American who was fired this season as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, reportedly is under consideration for the newly vacated head coach position with the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers announced Sunday that Byron Scott, who coached the Lakers to their two worst seasons ever, would not return to the…
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Life Iran-Born Artist Draws Comfortably From Both Nietzsche and Rumi
In the artist statement on her website, Los Angeles-based Angela Larian cites a variety of influences, including Plato’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies, as well as the writings of Persian poets Rumi (13th century) and Hafez (14th century). The blend, says the Tehran-born artist who moved to the United States as a 15-year-old in 1978, is “quite…
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Fast Forward Ashton Kutcher’s Kabbalah Rabbi Faces Abuse Suit
A former executive of the Kabbalah Centre, a spiritual group rooted in Jewish mysticism and known for its celebrity devotees, went on trial on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by a follower who says he plied her with alcohol and drugs, then groped her. Yehuda Berg, 43, son of the late rabbi who founded the…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Jewish Camp Denies Exposing Children to Radiation
The organization that oversees a popular Jewish summer camp near Los Angeles denied reports that it knowingly may have exposed tens of thousands of its campers to radioactive waste and toxic chemicals — calling reports to that effect “deeply flawed and entirely misleading.” Dr. Robert Wexler, the president of American Jewish University, made the statement…
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Forward 50 2015 Eli Broad
Writing for the Los Angeles Times in 2014, Eli Broad and Richard Riordan wrote that “citizens need leaders who sketch a vision of what is possible and rally them to the cause.” They were writing about their funding collaboration for Los Angeles’s long-planned Walt Disney Concert Hall, but the philosophy could easily be used to…
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Life Eschewing the Nose Job in Image-Conscious L.A.
As if growing up a digit away from the 90210 wasn’t enough to school me in beauty standards, my mother had already undergone two nose jobs by the time I was six. Mom says her original nose had a bump and the tip was crooked. When a doctor said she had a deviated septum, she…
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Fast Forward Were Hebrew Union College Rabbi’s Grandchildren Snatched by Mother?
Los Angeles police are searching for two Jewish brothers who disappeared nearly two weeks ago and are believed to have been abducted by their Taiwanese-American mother. The children’s parents are divorced and live in different cities. The two brothers, Sage Cook, 14, and Isaac Cook, 9, flew on Aug. 28 from their father’s home in…
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Culture Old Traditions in New L.A.
and her husband, David Nahai, have been living together in Los Angeles for 33 years — 24 of them in their current home in Benedict Hills. Both are of Persian descent. Gina, 54, is a writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Southern California. David is an attorney and environmental activist. Their…
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