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Fast Forward Barack Obama Demands Global Fight on Anti-Semitism
Recalling the horrors of the Holocaust, President Barack Obama urged nations to fight growing anti-Semitism and threats against Israel. Speaking Wednesday night to 1,200 supporters of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, Obama called for “confronting a rising tide of anti-Semitism around the world. “We see attacks on Jews in the streets of major…
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Food Wexler’s Brings The Deli Revolution to L.A.
Artisan delis have popped up in Portland, New York and San Francisco in recent years with up-and-coming chefs riffing on their grandparents’ pastrami sandwiches and matzo ball — while cooking up an antidote to the Jewish deli’s widespread demise. But the deli revolution hadn’t reached Los Angeles, at least not until now. Last week, chef…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish’ Ex-Con Charged With Hate Crimes for Los Angeles Anti-Semitic Vandalism
Los Angeles prosecutors have filed hate crimes charges against a local man for scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti outside a Jewish-owned plumbing business. Amos Hason, a 49-year old man who has previously claimed to be Jewish, has been charged with six misdemeanor counts of vandalism and hate crimes, and faces up to three years in prison, according…
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Fast Forward LA Mayor: Donald Sterling Will Put Up ‘Long Fight’ To Keep Clippers
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Sunday he expects Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to put up a “long, protracted fight” to retain ownership of the team after being banned for life from the National Basketball Association because of racial comments. Garcetti, appearing on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” program, was asked about…
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Fast Forward David Geffen Wants To Buy Los Angeles Clippers From Donald Sterling
Billionaire media executive David Geffen is interested in buying the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, according to a person with knowledge of Geffen’s thinking, following a decision by National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver to ban Clipper owner Donald Sterling for life. Silver said he would urge other NBA team owners to force Sterling to…
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Opinion Racist Trash Talk, From Top Court to Hardwood
Those racist remarks attributed to Donald Sterling, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, reveal something very important about the state of race relations in America today. Everybody seems to agree about that. Just what they reveal, though, is anybody’s guess. On one hand you have the anxious observation of the executive…
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Life The Redemption of Valley Girl Speak
IMDB // The Valley girl characters Cher Horowitz and Dionne Davenport in “Clueless” Like, yes. Like totally. Like finally. The Valley girls of the world have been redeemed. In what I hope is the last and final word on girl speak, the New York Times recently ran an oped by prominent linguist and literature professor…
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News The Father-and-Son Rabbis Who Inspire One Another — and Grandma Too
Aaron Fink likes to tell an anecdote about his oldest son: When Eliyahu Fink was in grade school, he discovered an error in ‘The Little Midrash Says,’ a children’s book about weekly Torah portions. The precocious child sent a handwritten letter to the author, asking him why he apparently confused the dates on which God…
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