Jewish Journal: 50 reasons why L.A. is America’s coolest Jewish city

I wonder what the goyim will think about this list.

Jared Sichel writes:

50. Not one, but two(!) Holocaust museums

Thanks to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and the Museum of Tolerance, you’ll never, never forget.
49. The beach

48. The good New Yorkers move here

47. The annoying ones go back to New York after 12 months

46. Drugs … rehab, that is

45. Steven Spielberg

44. Steven Spielberg’s mother

43. The USC Shoah Foundation

42. The Kibitz Room at Canter’s Deli

41. Best shawarma and matbucha outside Israel

40. The best and most accessible kosher restaurants in America

39. Jeff’s Gourmet Sausage Factory

38. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and its art collection are reason enough to get yourself admitted (for something minor)

37. The Skirball Cultural Center can make you look super-smart

36. If there’s a kosher Mexican restaurant to die for, we have it

35. The Happy Minyan

34. Friday Night Live at Sinai Temple

33. Get holy with celebrities in synagogue

32. Going to Vegas for Christmas with every other Jew in L.A.

31. Ari Gold

30. Haim Saban

29. Sunbrella vs. umbrella

28. Israeli-style dress codes

27. Israeli-style drivers

26. America’s biggest annual pro-Israel festival

25. The Israeli-American Council

24. Yes, you can fly to Israel nonstop from here

23. The Israel Film Festival and the L.A. Jewish Film Festival

22. Two 770s

21. L.A. Jews are probably the writers, producers and/or directors behind your favorite shows and movies

20. All-star rabbis

19. Tehrangeles!

18. We got $
Jews made up almost 50 percent of the L.A. Business Journal’s 2015 list of the 50 wealthiest Angelenos, with Sumner Redstone (we, too, were surprised to learn a guy named Sumner Redstone is Jewish) and Eli Broad in the top spots. In all, we counted at least 23 Jews on the list. FYI: For every 50 people in Los Angeles, about 3.3 are Jewish. The combined net worth of the Biz Journal’s present-day Rothschilds is $65.39 billion — nearly 10 percent of L.A.’s gross domestic product. Note: This entry will likely soon appear on Stormfront.

17. Our Eastside is cooler than yours

16. Our Westside is cooler than yours

15. The city’s top three elected officials are Jews

14. Brandeis-Bardin Institute

13. 97 percent of the celebrities Abe Foxman has condemned are here

12. Finding Jewish guys and gals is no harder here than anywhere else

11. And they’re really hot

10. America’s No. 1 deli city

9. You can imagine you’re in Ramallah

8. You can imagine you’re in Mea Shearim

7. You can imagine you’re in the Negev

6. You can imagine you’re in Tel Aviv

5. Nobody cares about your religious observance

4. We’re the Silicon Valley of shul and minyan startups

3. You will fit in somewhere

2. Being a “young professional”

1. America’s best Jewish newspaper

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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