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The Schmooze WATCH: Bubbe Schools You in Yiddish
You will laugh. You will cry. You will kvell. The Los Angeles Jewish Home has put together a cute video of some of their best bubbes and zaydes explaining the meaning of Yiddish words. “Yiddish: Part One” (implying, we hope, a “Part Two”) enlightens viewers on how to use the usual suspects — mentsh, shvitz, shmuck…
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News Henry Waxman Retirement Marks End of Era in Los Angeles Politics
When Rep. Henry Waxman, who will turn 75 in September, retires at the end of this year after 46 years in elected office, it will mark more than just the end of a storied career as one of the most prolific lawmakers in Congress. It will also draw the curtain on a generation of Jewish…
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Opinion With All Due Respect, Can’t My Critics Read?
Those who follow me online have observed that I don’t usually respond to my critics. I confess: I have a little fan club that hangs out in the Comments section and on my Facebook page, cursing my ancestry and generally whooping it up, and they seem to be having so much fun that I hate…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Gather For Max Steinberg’s Memorial Service in Los Angeles
A memorial service for fallen Israel Defense Forces soldier Max Steinberg, a California native, drew 1,000 people. The service Tuesday night, held at Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, paid tribute to Steinberg’s American childhood and his service in the IDF, according to the Times of Israel. Steinberg, 24, a sharpshooter in the Golani brigade, joined…
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Fast Forward Pro-Peace Group Attacked as ‘Filthy Jew Traitors’
A Jewish group dedicated to promoting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and which is deeply critical of Israeli policy, received an obscene, anti-Semitic voicemail on Saturday that attacked its members as “filthy Jew traitors.” The 44-second voicemail left for LA Jews for Peace expresses hope that its members “all become victims [of] Palestinian and Islamic…
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Fast Forward Max Steinberg Family Consoled at Western Wall
The family of the late American-Israeli soldier Max Steinberg visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Evie and Stuart Steinberg, and their remaining son and daughter, who came to Israel last week for the funeral of Max Steinberg, 24, a southern California native who was killed in Gaza in an attack on the armored personnel carrier…
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Food President Obama Stops By Canter’s Deli
President Obama visited Canter’s Deli today, an old favorite of Jews in Los Angeles. Over the course of the meal, he sat with a teacher, a wounded veteran, and two women entering the job market, according to Mark Knoller, CBS’s White House correspondent. Pres Obama discussing basketball and free-throw abilities with customers at Canter’s restaurant…
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Opinion L.A.’s Eric Garcetti Dons Kippah for Instagram
Getty Images After a year on the job, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, 43, has enjoyed mostly positive reviews from Angelenos and from observers of City Hall, who have credited his low-key governance style with helping reform the daily operations of the city’s government as well as with moving his “back to basics” initiatives forward…
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