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Culture Thriller Writer Janice Steinberg Preaches Gospel of Second Chances
● The Tin Horse By Janice Steinberg Random House, 352 pages, $26 At 85, Elaine Greenstein Resnick, “a brisk, no-bullshit woman” who worked as a civil rights attorney, is downsizing as she prepares to enter a retirement community. The University of Southern California, which wants her papers, has provided an eager young archivist to help…
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News Passover Kosher Meat Scandal in Los Angeles Latest in String of Mishaps
Less than a day before the start of Passover, the phone rang at the Brooklyn home of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. On the line were concerned members of the Rabbinical Council of California, a rabbinical association in Los Angeles that provides kosher certification, among other services. The RCC had just discovered that Mike Engelman, the owner…
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News How Kosher Meat Scandal Exploded in Los Angeles
On March 7, at 6:10 a.m., a van and an SUV sit in adjacent parking spaces in the lot of a McDonald’s near the junction of the 101 and the 405 freeways, their rear lift-gates open. Mike Engelman, the driver of the SUV, with the help of the driver of the van, loads something into…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Market in Kosher Meat Scandal Gets New Ownership
Local businessman Shlomo Rechnitz has bought a scandal-plagued kosher supermarket in Los Angeles from its former owner, who is suspected of mislabeling its meat. The Rabbinical Council of California, a kashrut certifier, on Wednesday announced the troubled Doheny Market will undergo a serious makeover after Rechnitz purchased the store from Mike Engleman at its behest….
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News Kosher Meat Scandal Hits Los Angeles Market
Los Angeles Jews are reeling from a kosher meat scandal that hit the community on Sunday, just a day before the beginning of Passover. In what The Jewish Journal is calling “the biggest kosher scandal to hit Los Angeles in 20 years,” Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats on Pico Boulevard, in the heart of the city’s…
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News Los Angeles ‘Jewish’ Mayoral Candidates Focus on Economy Not Ethnicity
The prospect that Los Angeles will get its first Jewish mayor increased sharply after the votes were counted in the city’s recent non-partisan primary election. But whether Jewish issues will play any part in the next round of campaigning is about as uncertain as the identity of next year’s Oscar host. The primary results left…
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Fast Forward Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel Will Clash for Los Angeles Mayor
Los Angeles mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel looked set for a run-off vote after a Tuesday primary election, in a race that has seen the two Democrats vow to slash business taxes to help the city rebound from a persistent economic slump. The non-partisan election in the nation’s second-largest city was held to…
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Fast Forward 3 With Jewish Ties Vie in L.A. Mayor Race
Los Angeles voters head to the polls on Tuesday in a primary election to choose a new mayor, with the top candidates trumpeting the need to reduce business taxes to grow the economy. The non-partisan primary election in the mostly liberal southern California city is expected to end with the top two contenders advancing to…
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