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Fast Forward Homeland Security Officer Probed for Firing on Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Los Angeles
Four people have been arrested and a Homeland Security officer is under investigation for firing his weapon during a weekend scuffle between pro-Israel demonstrators and Palestinian supporters outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles. The altercation Sunday evening grew out of a shouting match between the occupants of two vehicles that escalated when several people…
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Fast Forward Shots Fired by Federal Officer at Los Angeles Pro-Palestinian Protesters
A federal Homeland Security officer fired his weapon in the direction of counter demonstrators at a rally in support of Israel held in Los Angeles. Some 1,200 people attended the rally Sunday afternoon in front of the Federal Building in West Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Times. During the…
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Food Adam Fleischman’s Chocolate Fried Chicken
ChocoChicken’s chocolate fried chicken and duckfat fries. // Twitter/KristieHang Looking for a new way to eat all-American food on Independence Day? Try any of Adam Fleischman’s restaurants. Who is he, you ask? Why, the founder of the famous Umami Burger, of course! In 2009, Umami Burger was a single burger joint on La Brea Avenue,…
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Fast Forward Dating App Company Tinder Sued for Sexual Harassment
Former Tinder marketing Vice President Whitney Wolfe is suing the popular dating-app company for sexual harassment and discrimination, making it the latest technology business to face challenges over its treatment of women. Wolfe’s lawsuit, filed Monday, listed a series of alleged incidents of harassment over roughly 18 months starting in late 2012. Among the allegations:…
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Food Famed Hollywood Eatery Closes After 27 Years
Mel Brooks Ate Here! If the booths at Kate Mantilini could talk, they’d have plenty of Jewish stories to tell./Image courtesy of Kate Mantilini restaurant.* (Reuters) — The din of voices haggling over movies and pitching TV series, as familiar as the trademark meatloaf and grilled salmon, will soon disappear from Kate Mantilini, the Beverly…
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Fast Forward UCLA Student Court Says No Conflict in Israel Trips
A student-run judicial body at UCLA found that two former student government representatives did not violate conflict-of-interest rules in accepting sponsored trips to Israel. The Judicial Board for the Undergraduate Students Association ruled Thursday in favor of Sunny Singh and Lauren Rogers, who had taken trips to Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and the…
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News Right Wing Jews Take Aim at Anti-Gun Archetype
(JTA) — It’s a sunny morning in Southern California and Lea Rosenfeld, a soft-spoken, bespectacled woman who looks like a Jewish grandmother, squares her feet, faces her target and squeezes off five shots with a handgun. All of them miss. “I never even held a gun in my hands before,” she later confesses. “I’m still…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Says Sorry — Insists Not Racist in First Interview
Los Angeles Clippers Owner Donald Sterling, who was banned for life from the NBA over racist comments, has apologized and asked for forgiveness in his first public statement since the controversy began last month, CNN said on Sunday. In an interview to be broadcast on Monday, Sterling told CNN he made a terrible mistake but…
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