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Tag Archives: Hancock Park
I Want To Take Our Relationship To The Next Level
I need to give physical expression to my feelings for Torah. I must wrap tefillin immediately. Thank you for being a part of my online faith community. The prayer circle starts now! Joe emails: Do you know that the body … Continue reading
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Tagged close distance, faith community, Hancock Park, lake piru, physical expression, prayer circle
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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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Spinka Tax Fraud Conviction
From the Los Angeles Times July 19: A Hancock Park man agreed to plead guilty to federal tax evasion charges for making donations to an Orthodox Jewish group that were mostly refunded and then deducting them on his tax returns, … Continue reading
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Tagged fraud conviction, Hancock Park, john vandevelde, orthodox judaism, tax evasion charges, thom mrozek
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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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Los Angeles Jewish Mother/Daughter Killed In Car Crash In Israel
From Haaretz: Devorah Levenberg and her daughter Aliza, 2, were not wearing seat belts when the car in which they were traveling crashed head-on into another vehicle. The Levenbergs – Devorah, her husband Moshe, and Aliza – hitched a ride … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Jews, Los Angeles
Tagged adelman, adelmans, arei, car crash, central jerusalem, chest wounds, devorah, haaretz, halevi, Hancock Park, har, hatzolah, head wounds, hellip, Jewish Journal, jewish mother, kosher market, levenberg, magen david, magen david adom, mashiach ben david, massive injuries, mercaz harav, mother daughter, motzei shabbat, narkis, neveh, old mother, rabbi yisroel, seat belts, sitting in the back seat, tragic losses, tragic scene, uzi, uzi narkiss, vista ave, yerushalayim, zeev
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