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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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Opinion Of Purim and St. Paddy’s, Land, Rebellion and Booze
Purim falls this year on March 16, and St. Patrick’s Day on March 17. It appears that Jews will be nursing their hangovers on Monday morning just as the Irish are getting to work on theirs. What’s significant, year after year, is that the two peoples that did so much to define modern America have…
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The Schmooze Orange is the New Black, Purim Edition
To celebrate the release of the new Netflix series ‘Rambam is the new Rashi,’ thousands of Hasids took to the streets of Los Angeles.
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News ‘Shul on the Beach’ Makes Orthodox Waves in Los Angeles
Did you hear the one about the Orthodox synagogue located between a rehab center and an erotic lingerie shop, steps away from medical marijuana clinics and tattoo parlors, with a dead-on view of a beach where bikini-clad sun worshippers frolic? If you haven’t, it means you’ve never been to the Pacific Jewish Center on the…
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