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Jackson Prince

Jackson Prince

Gemini’s Grinsteins up close: A life of art, family and celebration

For the Los Angeles art scene — its masters, its patrons, its admirers, its dissenters, and even its casual followers — the passing of Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, co-founders of the artists’ workshop and publishing house Gemini G.E.L., marked the end of a pivotal era. Among the L.A. cultural world’s movers and shakers, its advocates and philanthropists whose generosity helped generate the thriving scene that exists today, the Grinsteins were among those at the nucleus.

Owning Judaism in college

Going into the college application process, I didn’t want to go to a school that was predominantly “Jewish.” Who could blame me? I had spent 18 years of my life in Beverly Hills, one Jew in a town full of them.

First Israeli MLB draftee begins climb in Dodger organization

The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Dean Kremer, a lean, 6-foot-3 20-year-old with a low-90s fastball and a devastating curveball — who happens to have already cemented his place in history as the first Israeli citizen to be drafted in Major League Baseball after being taken by the San Diego Padres last year.

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