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Fast Forward 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…
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Fast Forward 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…
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Fast Forward 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…
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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…
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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….
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Fast Forward 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…
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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…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Apologizes to Bar Mitzvah Boy Sam Horowitz for Slam
Rabbi David Wolpe has retracted elements of his previous screed against Sam Horowitz’s lavish bar mitzvah—but has stood by its substance. In a piece published in the Washington Post, Wolpe copped to penning his previous piece in a “white heat,” the type of anger that might cause a well-respected rabbi to “appear to insult a…
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