Follow the Forward’s latest news stories and posts about Los Angeles California
Los Angeles
The Latest
-
The Schmooze L.A. Shop Displays Holocaust Mannequin
Spotted: A mannequin dressed as a Holocaust victim on display at L.A. Jock in West Hollywood, California. Oy. But there’s more to the striped uniform and yellow star than meets the eye. The display is meant as a symbol of protest ahead of a rally tomorrow against Russian president Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay policies, according to…
-
Breaking News Los Angeles Jews Charged with $33M Bank Fraud Flee to Israel
Two Los Angeles Jews charged with participating in a $33 million bank fraud have fled to Israel. Aviv Mizrahi, who also goes by Aviv Shoham Schwartz, and Aryeh Greenes, both in their 50s, were charged Jan. 30 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles with bank fraud and making false statements in loan applications, CBSLA.com…
-
Breaking News Zev Yaroslavsky Mulls Run for Los Angeles Seat of Retiring Rep. Henry Waxman
Two prominent Southern California Democrats – a Taiwan-born state senator and former Los Angeles controller Wendy Greuel – have jumped into the race to fill a congressional seat being vacated by the retirement of veteran Rep. Henry Waxman. Veteran Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, a longtime Jewish leader and political ally of Waxman who…
-
Breaking News Fashion Blogger Rachel Nguyen Sorry for Posing at Jewish Cemetery
A blogger on the Los Angeles fashion scene apologized for posting photos of herself in front of a Jewish mausoleum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Rachel Nguyen wrote Wednesday on her That’s Chic blog, “I owe everyone a big humble apology,” calling the blog post of two days earlier “really poorly timed.” Nguyen, 23, had…
-
Food Chef Micah Wexler Brings Deli Revolution to Los Angeles
Outside the kitchen, Micah Wexler is friendly, funny and never without a 5 o’clock shadow. He’s the Seth Rogen of chefs — the kind of guy you wish you could grab a beer with. But in the kitchen he’s all business. Music during dinner prep? That’s fine. But come dinner service, it’s time for him…
-
Forward 50 2013 Eric Garcetti
It took a long and expensive campaign, one of the toughest the city has seen, but at its end Eric Garcetti emerged victorious as the first Jewish mayor of Los Angeles. With that, LA joined the two other largest cities in the nation, New York and Chicago, which also have Jewish mayors at their helms….
-
Breaking News Beverly Hills Rabbi Busted on Child Sex Charge
A rabbi was arrested at the Jewish youth center where he works in Beverly Hills, Calif., on child sex abuse charges from New York. Menachem Tewel, known also as Mendel Tevel, was arrested Tuesday at the JEM Center, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported. A spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department told the…
-
Opinion Poverty Shock: Stats Show Ills Began in 2001, Not ’07
Just in time for the fall harvest festival of Sukkot, the U.S. Census Bureau has published what we might call a 2013 update of America’s own Harvest of Shame: a comprehensive annual report on the state of income, poverty and health insurance in the United States. To be fair, it’s not all bad news. For…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
- 2
News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
- 3
News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
- 4
Culture At 95, Shaindel Schreiber is still dispensing babka and advice on the Lower East Side
In Case You Missed It
-
News When the bar mitzvah boy’s dad is running for mayor
-
Fast Forward Schusterman foundation, whose fortune comes from oil, makes first donation to climate group
-
Opinion Netanyahu was right to end the war in Lebanon — now Gaza must follow
-
Culture 10 wicked ways to avoid talking about war and politics this Thanksgiving
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
