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L.A. sheriff deputy may have tried to castrate wife’s lover
Nazis and gangbangers
Why news crews were waiting for Tony Alamo church raid
Rev. Wright, sexual affairs and professional hitmen
Angry pastor threatens to shoot other motorist
Set Free Ministries bikers charged with attempted murder *
Pastor charged with murder, L.A. Times neglects religious implications
NYT Mag gets intimate with girls of the FLDS
Gunman storms Tennessee church, kills one *
Rediscovering gangster Jewish roots
Do Messianic Jewish prisoners deserve kosher meals?
Take back L.A.
I love Los Angeles, but let's face facts: We're fast becoming a second-rate city. Public safety is broken. Jews in Los Angeles were rightly outraged in June when Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza killed one Israeli in Sderot. But in one weekend of that same month, 14 Angelenos were murdered in gang-related shootings.
Mugshots and police uniforms for Orthodox Jewish women
God arrested for selling cocaine in Tampa
Terror cell member sentenced for plotting LA attacks
Thieves cart off Jesus statue
‘We Love Jesus’ bandits on the lam
NY Jews protest attack on teen
Muslim creationist gets three years prison time
NY Post: Financier allegedly bribed Israel’s Olmert
Fauxmemoirist likens gangsters to suicide bombers
Voice of reason in a sea of insanity, Jewish Dodgers, Prager, archaeologists, politicians and peace
letters to the editor
Bad news for Jews: American accused of spying for Israel in ‘80s
Israeli girl’s disappearance marks 1-year anniversary
It has been a year since Dana Rishpy, an Israeli girl last seen vacationing in Mexico, disappeared. In that time, her parents have had their hopes buoyed -- and then dashed -- by numerous erroneous reports that Dana had been spotted in Guatemala or Belize or some other Central American country.
Sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’
Just simply: Why?
City and Feds offer $95,000 reward for information on Valley firebombings
Los Angeles and Jewish officials announced today that the reward for information about last week's firebombing attacks on The New JCC at Milken and the West Valley residence of a Jewish family has been increased to $95,000.
Beverly Hills PD alleges Iranian Jewish man shot brother
Alfred Hakim, 49, an Iranian Jewish resident of Beverly Hills, was allegedly shot Wednesday night by his 47-year-old brother, Adel.
Murder Inc. and Jewish toughs
Spinka leader charged with tax fraud
‘Judge orders priest to recite Psalms for parking illegally’
‘Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab’
Cardinal Mahony assaulted because of clergy scandal
Rodney King shot
Gangster Jews and the bid to defy weakness
It’s not about ethics, it’s business
This is parenting?
Barry Bonds indicted for perjury
‘Mormon Robin Hood’ robbin’ banks
LA drug ring fronting for Hezbollah
More aid to Palestinians means more murders
Giuliani’s former police commish to be indicted
The self-proclaimed Nazi hunter
Young Israel rabbi reportedly mugged
What does evil look like?
Unholy behavior in the Holy Land
Jack Abramoff the bully
From the ‘Only in LA (County)’ files
Free OJ—are you nuts?
That neighborhood racket is a bunch of atoning Jews
The saga of Shankster Gangster
Documentary: Sao Paolo nightmare gives lesson in class warfare
In "Manda Bala" ("Send a Bullet"), Jason Kohn portrays a dystopian nation where the rich steal from the poor and the poor literally "steal" the rich. The movie won best documentary and documentary cinematography awards at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and "is as well directed as a thriller," according to a review in The Hollywood Reporter.
Can a minister put the fear of God in gang members?
Muggings in Pico-Robertson raise concern in Orthodox community
Fifteen years ago, Mordechai Naor walked to Congregation Shaarei Tefila in the Fairfax district with a handgun as his companion. Six years after moving to the Pico-Robertson neighborhood and leaving those fears of mugging behind, Naor is considering re-kindling an old relationship.
Justice takes a beating in Long Beach racial hatred case
The basic facts of the case are that last Halloween, a pack of black youths, with no evidence of any provocation, set upon three young white women who had come to an upscale part of Long Beach known to attract trick-or-treaters.
Shoah Denial Conference: Damage Assessment
Why is Ahmadinejad pursuing this foolish crusade against the Holocaust? After all, even he must know that the Holocaust is one of the most documented events in human history and, hence, that denying its reality or even questioning its magnitude and significance is likely to end up in embarrassment. Why then is he so insistent?
Jimmy Carter Mideast book shows his anti-Israel bias
I like Jimmy Carter. I have known him since he began his run for president in early 1976. I worked hard for his election, and I have admired the work of the Carter Center throughout the world. That's why it troubles me so much that this decent man has written such an indecent book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
News Briefs
Briefs
Shedding Light on a Dark ‘Rising’
The film "City of God" shed light on a long-neglected subject, the Third World conditions and inescapable warfare existing in Rio de Janeiro's slums. Now comes "Favela Rising," a documentary that not only limns the tragedy of the favelas, the Brazilian ghettoes, but also tells the inspirational tale of Anderson Sá, a black Messiah figure who founds a reggae music club that offers a nonviolent alternative to their rampant drug and gang activity.
Communities on Alert After Seattle Shootings
Jewish communities are being urged to remain vigilant, be in touch with police and other law enforcement agencies and review their security arrangements after a fatal shooting at Seattle's Jewish federation offices. The alleged gunman, identified by police as Naveed Afzal Haq, said he was an American Muslim upset about what was going on in Israel.
A Side of L.A. the Tour Books Don’t Mention
I'll admit to a bit of initial wariness about a bus tour through Inglewood, Lennox and Hawthorne, sponsored a couple of Sundays ago by the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA). The three communities just east of LAX have poverty and crime rates far exceeding the averages in L.A. County. But the 90 people who boarded the two buses at the Westside Jewish Community Center were not interested in casual sightseeing.
Arsonist Attacks Persian Synagogue in Tarzana
Following an inquiry by the mayor's office and City Councilman Dennis Zine, the LAPD reported that patrols of the area will be stepped up in advance of the new shul's Sunday ceremony.
Crestview Residents Fear Shooting Related to Gangs
Members of the quiet, tight-knit, largely Orthodox Jewish Crestview neighborhood in Pico-Robertson gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday evening to give voice to fears regarding recent violence that has rocked the area. The neighborhood was rattled on June 3 at about 10:15 p.m. when passengers of a black Ford Explorer fired more than a dozen shots into the second story of a duplex on the 1600 block of Wooster Street. No one was injured.
Defender of France
The French government has responded to anti-Semitic acts with forthrightness: harsher penalties, better coordination with prosecutors, widespread educational reforms, a crackdown on hate-spewing Iranian and Arab media and ongoing public statements from the president on down.
Jews in Poland Speak of Shoah Remembrance as a Curse
March of the Living, the international educational program that began in 1988, has brought approximately 90,000 teenagers, accompanied by Jewish educators, social workers and survivors, to Poland for a week.
Community Briefs
Community Briefs
Letters
Letters to the Editor
French Views Split on Halimi’s Murder
Some French remain convinced that the barbaric torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jew, was not an anti-Semitic hate crime.
The kidnap murder has been declared an anti-Semitic act by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy but also a violent crime whose motive was money. Since Halimi was found abandoned in a suburban train station Feb. 13 and died on the way to the hospital, the affair has been the talk of France.
French Rally Against Jew’s Torture Death
Until last week, officials and detectives investigating the case said they were not linking it to anti-Semitism. But in a turnaround, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told a Jewish communal gathering last week that officials had decided to treat the case as an act of anti-Semitism.
Suit Filed Over Police Shooting of Israeli
Police claim Deri was a suspect in a multiagency task force investigation into drug-trafficking, gangs and organized crime. But Jarchi insisted their claims are absurd.
Nation & World Briefs
World Briefs
Community Briefs
Community Briefs
Where Streets Were Paved With Sorrow
Vincent introduces us to three women who illuminate three very different aspects of the shameful reality of white slavery that existed in Latin America between 1860 and 1939.
Violent Crime Rises in Israeli Society
"We talk a lot about the symptoms for this phenomenon but not enough about the causes of violence," said Gideon Fishman, head of Haifa University's Minerva Center for the Study of Youth. "If we do not explore the causes, nothing will help -- neither more policemen nor more punitive measures."
Vandals Destroy Large Menorah
Vandals destroyed a large public menorah in Orange County last weekend, an act classified as a hate crime by authorities.
The steel menorah, weighing 150 pounds and standing 15 feet high and 10 feet wide, was located in Ladera Ranch, a planned community near Mission Viejo.
The Swastika in My Binder
I am sitting in physiology class. The teacher assigns a lab report and I open my planner. I see something doodled on the page.
I have a swastika in my planner.
Rabbi Quits After Reported Sex Sting
An official with an educational program for Jewish high school students has resigned after allegedly searching the Internet for liaisons with underage boys and sending naked pictures of himself.
Rabbi David Kaye resigned from Panim on Oct. 31, several days before being featured on "Dateline NBC" seeking a sexual encounter with an underage boy in a chat room.
In the eyes of American and Torah laws, Williams should die for his heinous crimes.
In the case of the People v. Williams, the facts are quite clear. A jury convicted Stanley Tookie Williams of the execution-style murder of 23-year-old Albert Owens during a robbery of a 7-Eleven store in Whittier. The jury also convicted him of murdering the owners of a Los Angeles motel, Tsai-Shai Yang, 62, and Yen-I Yang, 65, and their 42-year-old daughter, Yee Chen Lin, in the course of a robbery two weeks later. The American justice system has been patient and thorough, and its verdict is clear: It is legal, proper and high time that Williams should die.
Juvenile Offenders Taste Teshuvah
Four years ago, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles funded the joint project between Centinela and two L.A.-based Jewish groups, the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) and Beit T'Shuvah, a Jewish recovery program.
Spectator - Scene of the Shot
Although he became famous for graphic, sensationalist and emotionally raw photographs that simultaneously exaggerate and illuminate human folly, Weegee never forgot his Lower East Side roots as an immigrant Jew.
Krugel Gets 20 Years for Bomb Plot
The proceedings brought an apparent close to a case that briefly riveted national attention in the immediate wake of the terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists on Sept. 11, 2001.
Channel Surf With the Tribe
Welcome to fall: The time of High Holidays, contemplation, repentance and really, really long services.
And did I mention TV?
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