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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
Posted in Beth Jacob, Bnai David-Judea, Hancock Park, Haredi, Harkham Hillel, Pico/Robertson, R. Kalman Topp, YICC
Tagged Abner Weiss, Beth Jacob, orthodox shul, orthodox synagogues, rabbi maurice lamm, vietnam draft, YICC, Young Israel
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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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Tagged fire agencies, Hancock Park, lake piru, ventura county sheriff, ventura county star
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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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Tagged bonfiglio, Hancock Park, lake piru, ventura county sheriff, ventura county star
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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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Tagged downs syndrome, dowry, girlfriends, girls, Hancock Park, hungarian, illegitimate children, Mafia, orthodox jews, tax shelters
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La Brea Murder-Suicide Victims ID’d
From CBS: LOS ANGELES (CBS) ? On Monday, authorities identified a husband and wife who died in an apparent murder-suicide in the Park La Brea area of Los Angeles. Bruce and Terri Nadler, both 61, died on Saturday of gunshot wounds that … Continue reading
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Murder/Suicide On LA’s ‘Holiest Street’
The LAT reports: "Park La Brea: A white man and a white woman, approximately in their 60s, were found dead inside their home at 200 S. Detroit St. in the Park La Brea area at about 11:23 a.m. Saturday, Feb. … Continue reading
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