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Top 30 Hottest Jewish Women for your viewing pleasure

By Lauren Bottner
Published on April 4, 2011


Top ten lists: Time, Barnes & Noble and Amazon

By Book Buzz
Published on December 14, 2008


Pico-Robertson named a Top Ten ‘hood, Court upholds SS guard’s deportation

Published on June 19, 2008


Mensches: Our third annual salute to big-hearted Angelenos

Published on December 27, 2007

"It is hard to convey the special sense of respect, dignity and approbation that can be conveyed by calling someone 'a real mensch,'" writes Leo Rosten in "The Joys of Yiddish."

The Yiddish word infuses the basic German denotation -- "person" -- with an almost indefinable connotation. A mensch is a person who is upright, honorable, decent, as Rosten writes, a person to admire and emulate.


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