Turning teens into police officers

By Ryan Torok
Published on May 1, 2013

Roberta Weintraub, a 77-year-old political activist and former president of the L.A. Unified School District Board of Education, has always had a soft spot for the men and women in blue.

L.A.’s top cop debates gun laws

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 6, 2013

In the ongoing debate over proposed laws aimed at reducing gun violence, the main decision-makers work in Washington, D.C. In cities and state capitols across the country, legislators, advocates and lobbyists push for new limits on gun ownership or advocate for a broad interpretation of the constitutionally protected right to bear arms.

Missing Israeli found in North Hollywood

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 23, 2013

Syril Zimand, a 28-year-old Israeli thought to be missing by his father, turned up in North Hollywood on Jan. 20, approximately 25 days after the father, Henri Zimand, a philanthropist and entrepreneur who lives in Israel and Monaco, told the Jewish Journal and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) that he had lost track of his son’s whereabouts and was concerned for his safety.

Syril Zimand, aspiring Israeli filmmaker, missing in Hollywood [UPDATE]

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 7, 2013

According to Detective L. Saiza of the Los Angeles Police Department's missing-person unit, as of Jan. 7 Henri Zimand has not filed a missing-persons report with the LAPD about his son, Syril Zimand. This despite the fact that Zimand has asked the LAPD, the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and family living in Los Angeles to help find his son.

Israeli missing in Los Angeles

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 2, 2013

The son of an Israeli businessman and philanthropist is believed by his father to be missing in Los Angeles.

Arrest made following Wilshire Boulevard Temple bomb scare, vandalism

By Ryan E. Smith
Published on December 20, 2012

A naturalized citizen from South Korea was arraigned today on charges related to the numerous bomb threats made Dec. 18 against Wilshire Boulevard Temple (WBT) in Koreatown and a police squad car parked adjacent to its campus, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Man arrested in connection with Wilshire Boulevard Temple bomb threats

Published on December 20, 2012

The man arrested in connection with fake bomb threats made against a Los Angeles synagogue was also charged with vandalizing it earlier this month.

[UPDATE] Melvin Gelfand, missing person, found dead

Published on October 3, 2011

Gelfand was originally thought to have boarded a bus at 120th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard bound for Valley View Casino in San Diego on September 14, 2011, but there are no records of him boarding the bus or using his player’s card at the casino so it is doubtful that he made it there.

A Temple’s Pride

By Steve Getzug
Published on November 4, 1999

In the just-the-facts world of the Los Angeles Police Department, rocks and other objects thrown through stained glass windows at the David Familian Chapel last February were categorized as acts of vandalism motivated by hate.