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Category Archives: Los Angeles
Shul Shopping For The High Holidays
I’ll be interviewed on KNBC TV at 5:45 p.m. talking about my Los Angeles synagogue ratings. Here’s the audio. Anchor: "But now finding the right synagogue for you could be just a click of the mouse away. Channel 4’s Cary … Continue reading
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Two Orthodox students shot with pellet gun;
Brad A. Greenberg reports: Two Orthodox Jews were shot with a pellet gun Thursday night at Alta Vista Boulevard and Waring Avenue in the Melrose area in an incident that Los Angeles police have labeled a hate crime. No one … Continue reading
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Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller Profiled In The September Issue Of Los Angeles Magazine
I love how Jesse Katz focuses on how the case became a "Jewish American Rorschach test, its interpretation shaped by ideology, by identity, by religious and partisan agendas." I could never become upset about the case. The rabbi felt verbally … Continue reading
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The Manhattanizing of L.A.
From the New York Sun: Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times carried a piece by one of the most provocative of urban pundits, Joel Kotkin, under the headline, "Why the Rush to Manhattanize L.A.?" Mr. Kotkin speaks of a zoning vote last … Continue reading
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Illegal Vending Growing In Los Angeles
From MayorSam: Now that street vendors are popping up in greater numbers and in new areas throughout the Streets of Los Angeles; what impact will this have on the Los Angeles business, safety and health? If you take a look … Continue reading
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