Category Archives: Hancock Park

Andrew Friedman Supports Carmen Trutanich For District Attorney

There’s nobody in the Los Angeles Jewish community more politically connected than personal injury lawyer Andrew Friedman, one of the old-school Hungarians of Hancock Park. In 2005, when most of the Jewish community supported Bob Hertzberg or James Hahn for … Continue reading

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Pico-Robertson In The 1960s

It was populated with faux yeshivas to get Orthodox Jews out of the Vietnam draft. By 1980, there were only two Orthodox synagogues in the community — Young Israel of South Beverly Hills and Beth Jacob. There wasn’t a kosher … Continue reading

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Hancock Park Jew Found Dead

From the Ventura County Star: Search teams found the body of Anatoly Smolyansky in Lake Piru on Monday, a week after he jumped into the water after his daughter and drowned. Smolyansky, 39, of Los Angeles, and his family were … Continue reading

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A Prominent Jew From Hancock Park Missing And Presumed Drowned

From the Ventura County Star: Divers are continuing their search this morning for the body of a Los Angeles man who was presumed drowned after he went missing in Lake Piru Monday evening, authorities said. Anatoly Smolyansky, 39, was in … Continue reading

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Who Is Hancock Park’s Hungarian Mafia And Should We Fear Them?

They are not violent. They’re Orthodox Jews. They have their wives and their girlfriends and their illegitimate children and their shady tax shelters. Says a source: "They fix surgically the eyes of the Downs Syndrome girls and even marry them … Continue reading

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