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Fast Forward Steve Bannon Didn’t Want Children Going to School With ‘Whiny’ Jews
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s newly appointed top White House aide, once objected to his twin daughters going to school with “whiny brat” Jews, court documents revealed. The incoming president’s future right hand man complained that there were too many Jewish students at the Archer School for Girls, an elite private school in Los Angeles because…
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The Schmooze Kim Kardashian Joins Push for Jewish Cancer Victim
— Kim Kardashian joined the drive to find a bone marrow donor for a 31-year-old Jewish father in Los Angeles, calling for help on her highly trafficked social media channels. Adam Krief, a father of three from Israel, was diagnosed recently with primary myelofibrosis, a rare form of blood cancer that is likely fatal if…
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Fast Forward From LA to Israel: One Swimmer’s Journey to the Rio Olympics
NETANYA, Israel (JTA) – Andrea Murez steps on the diving board, adjusts her goggles, swings her long arms and propels herself into the water at the Wingate Institute athletic complex here. Murez is training with a dozen other swimmers. She is the one preparing for the Summer Olympics a few weeks later. The 24-year-old Los…
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Fast Forward Engineering Professor Slain by Grad Student in Bloody UCLA Murder-Suicide
Los Angeles police on Thursday identified the gunman who killed a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, before taking his own life as Mainak Sarkar, an engineering student at the school. Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Jane Kim confirmed that the gunman had been identified as Sarkar but declined to provide other details….
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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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