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Category Archives: Los Angeles
RELIVING THE HISTORY OF JEWISH LOS ANGELES WITH RABBI EINHORN’S LECTURE SERIES
You can find Rabbi Einhorn’s lectures at YUTorah.org (just search for “Shlomo Einhorn” and sort by latest). From JewishHomeLa.com: On Monday evening March 17th, 2014, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, Dean of Yeshivat Yavneh, began a repeat of his first-rate 14 part … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, R. Shlomo Einhorn
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Crime Wave Through 90035
Black and latino criminals are becoming more aggressive in 90035. Why? Benny Forer wrote Oct. 27, 2014: I am a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County. I specialize in prosecuting Cyber Crime, including identity theft and credit card fraud. … Continue reading
Posted in Homeless, Los Angeles
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LAT: Landlord orders Hollywood tower tenants to vacate
Shaul Kuba and Avi Shamesh are the principals of the group and they are both Israelis. LAT: The planned Target shopping center in Hollywood has stood unfinished for nearly a year, surrounded by fencing and patroled by guards. Work stopped … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Los Angeles
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High Trust Vs Low Trust Societies II
A friend writes on FB: So here is a lovely L.A. story. On way to airport for redeye, merging from the 10 to the 405, signaling for lane change, guy in aggressively fast BMW coming up behind doesn’t let me … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Los Angeles
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Manhattan Beach Is Doing Something Right
From the LA Weekly: Manhattan Beach is Venice if it went to college, an idyllic Los Angeles suburb that anyone can enjoy if they’re willing to brave the traffic. Well, maybe not anyone. The city has made it illegal to … Continue reading
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9% of San Bernardino County Public School Students Are Homeless
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Too many Mexicans and Blacks, they are the source of it. Import enough of them and they’ll degrade any community and drive out productive whites. Why do you think Hesperia and Victorville grew like crazy? … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Immigration, Latino, Los Angeles, Mexicans
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Lifeguard Beaten By Three Armenians On Santa Monica Pier
Los Angeles Times. Comments to Steve Sailer: * “- The Soviet Union was a finishing school for thugs and gangsters?” Yeah, when the Soviet Union ended the thugs took over it. * The late USSR was an extremely law-abiding society. … Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Los Angeles
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Mexican LA No Longer Disappoints
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I guess this is why SoCal, and LA in particular, is no longer the subject of countless meditations on disillusionment and disappointment. The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the ur-example, but it was an even … Continue reading
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WHITE WOMAN SHOT, KILLED IN HOLLYWOOD WITH NO APPARENT MOTIVE; SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR BLACK GUNMAN
HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A woman walking with her boyfriend in Hollywood was shot and killed, and police are looking for the gunman. The shooting was reported shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday. Police said the victim, identified as Carrie … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Crime, Los Angeles
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NYT: “How Los Angeles Is Becoming a ‘Third World’ City”
Comments to Steve Sailer: * “The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.” We imported millions of poor Turd Worlders and now he complains that L.A. has million of poor First Worlders – as if changing … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Los Angeles
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