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Category Archives: Los Angeles
Knick fans Stewart Rahr and Jona Rechnitz make a big score for charities
New York Daily News May 10, 2013: With the game winding down and the Knicks losing, Rechnitz asked for a consolation prize — $100,000 from Rahr if the Knicks lost, to give to charity. Stewart [Rahr] “looked at me and … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Jews, Los Angeles, New York, Orthodoxy, Shlomo Rechnitz, Simon Wiesenthal, Yeshiva
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Who Made Los Angeles?
The Twitter wisdom of John Rivers: * LA was built by Midwestern Germanic engineers moving there during & after WW2. The best of the best – and they got crushed by demographics. * There are few places on the planet … Continue reading
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Good Places To Have A Heart Attack
A friend was having a heart attack. He got in his car and drove towards UCLA and once he crossed Pico, he knew the ambulance would have to take him to UCLA, so he pulled over and called 9-1-1. Otherwise, … Continue reading
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LAT: Why the Expo Line to Santa Monica marks a rare kind of progress in American cities
How happy will residents of Santa Monica be when their city is inundated with residents of South-Central? These questions don’t get addressed in all the media coverage of LA’s light rail extension to the coast. Christopher Hawthorne writes: The 1.5-billion … Continue reading
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Wealth Of Los Angeles Jews Is Limitless?
Comment: Steve, have you ever read about this? It was a mini-scandal in Los Angeles back in 1988. Memos leaked to the L.A. Times revealed that two Jewish political consultants gave a Jewish city councilman running for mayor some frank … Continue reading
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Remembering Jewish White Flight from L.A. Public Schools
The number of black kids in the schools I went to (prior to college, and even then it was never more than about 5% at UCLA in 1988-1989) was never more than about 2%. One of the marks of Orthodox … Continue reading
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After Many Generations, Mexicans Still Not Prospering in SoCal
Steve Sailer writes: We are supposed to imagine that the vast immigration from Mexico to America is an investment in our future. But in Greater Los Angeles, where the future already has happened, the median Mexican family has set aside … Continue reading
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Op-Ed Rich Angelenos are giving less to charity — and the consequences are dire
Los Angeles Times: During the Great Recession, tens of thousands of residents in Los Angeles County fell into poverty, and thousands more became homeless and went hungry. Simultaneously, the public sector was forced to reduce funding for many human services. … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity, Los Angeles, Mexicans, Mexico
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Boyle Heights: Gentrification’s Battlefront in L.A.
The Guardian: … Bold words given that developers are investing billions of dollars a five-minute bike ride away in downtown LA, transforming the skyline with gleaming towers and the streets with boutique bars, restaurants, cafes and galleries. With rents soaring … Continue reading
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CBS: 85-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Severely Beaten In Downtown LA
I find downtown scary. I don’t know how people can live there. CBS: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Authorities say an 85-year-old man who was standing outside to get a breath of fresh air died Monday after being severely beaten in … Continue reading
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