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News IKAR Looks To Build Without Losing Magic
“Who can ignore that little science experiment you call IKAR?” says Rabbi David Wolpe in an online video “roast” of one of Los Angeles’ most un-orthodox Jewish congregations and its sometimes controversial rabbi, Sharon Brous. “It’s like Mike and Ike, compared to our crème brûlée.” Wolpe, chief rabbi of Temple Sinai, a grand synagogue on…
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Fast Forward Man Charged With Vandalizing L.A. Synagogue
The man arrested in connection with fake bomb threats made against a Los Angeles synagogue was also charged with vandalizing it earlier this month. Several bomb threats against the Wilshire Boulevard Temple were called in to the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday morning. One call said that there was a bomb planted in a car…
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Fast Forward Jewish Rampage Survivor Issues Gun Control Call
Joshua Stepakoff was just 6 years old when he was shot and wounded in a 1999 shooting rampage at his suburban Los Angeles preschool. Now 19, he wants to know why more hasn’t been done to curb gun violence in America. “If now is not the right time, when is? People are shot every day……
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Fast Forward Carmen Warschaw, Calif. Democrat, Dies at 95
Carmen Warschaw, a national and California state Democratic leader and philanthropist, has died. She died on Election Day, Nov. 6, in Los Angeles of natural causes at the age of 95. A daughter of immigrants, she was born in Arcadia, Calif. and was a lifelong resident of the Los Angeles area. U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein…
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Opinion 31 Jews in Congress
As the election enters its final stretch, the Forward is making some final projections for our congressional scorecard based on the latest polling results. We now predict at least 31 Jews — 10 in the Senate and 21 in the House of Representatives — will serve in the next Congress, a slight rise from the…
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Culture When Tehran Comes to Los Angeles
Museum negotiations to bring artifacts from abroad for exhibits are typically complex. And the detailed discussions that brought a stunning collection opening on Iranian Jewry here in October were no exception. But the institutional arrangements between the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles and Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People,…
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Opinion Balding Jew Grabs Lead for L.A. Seat
The Berman-Sherman congressional race in California’s 30th district has been nothing but pure drama. With millions of dollars pouring into the race, attack ads, and with the two Jewish Democrats, Howard Berman and Brad Sherman’s latest debate making headlines thanks to an unprecedented physical altercation, the entire nation is tuning in to see who will…
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Fast Forward Brad Sherman Sorry for Grabbing Berman
Rep. Brad Sherman is expressing regret over a much-discussed incident in which he grabbed his opponent Rep. Howard Berman during a heated moment in a debate. “I touched him, I put my arm around his shoulder, I should not have done that,” the California Democrat, who is locked in a redistricting-induced battle, told the Associated…
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