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Idan Ivri

Another Jewish Landmark Faces Demolition

Men slowly arrange scattered clothes into a makeshift tent on the front steps of 126 N. St. Louis St. A few windows in the building\’s powder-blue facade are broken; an old chimney stains a sliver of the north wall black.

Today, the anonymous building is one among thousands that dot the Los Angeles cityscape, but in the 1930s and 1940s, the Vladeck Center was the secular heart of Jewish Boyle Heights. The building was a base for the Workmen\’s Circle and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, as well as the founding location of the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC).

The Vladek Center\’s history was unearthed last year, half a century after most of Los Angeles\’ Jewish community moved west, when the city began moving forward with plans to demolish the building for an expanded Hollenbeck Police Station. Getting the city to alter course seems a tall order, but the planned demolition has attracted critical attention.

Rabbi Retracts Claim Against Hahn

A Los Angeles rabbi has retracted his charge that Mayor James Hahn\’s re-election campaign was \”dishonest and manipulative\” in claiming endorsements from Jewish community leaders.

Rabbi Retracts Claim Against Hahn

A Los Angeles rabbi has retracted his charge that Mayor James Hahn\’s reelection campaign was \”dishonost and manipulative\” in claiming endorsements from Jewish community leaders.

False Endorsement Allegations Continue

The campaign to re-elect Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn is struggling to contain damage from newly emerging allegations that it falsely claimed endorsements from local Jewish leaders.

Four more community members have inspected Hahn endorsement letters and declared their signatures on them to be forgeries, bringing the total of alleged forgeries to eight since the issue first came to light last month.

The total of bad endorsements may well surpass 30, said community sources, but this claim has not been independently verified.

Political Journal

This month\’s Political Journal is a tale of two labor disputes. One is dragging on and on; the other has come to a peaceful conclusion just when it seemed there might be a strike ahead.

Not for Hahn After All

Six prominent members of the Jewish community have sent a letter of protest to Mayor Jim Hahn, claiming Hahn\’s re-election campaign used their names in endorsement advertisements without their permission.

Briefs

Briefs; Council Adds Some Fire to Mayoral Race; Love and Marriage – and Welfare

Mayoral Candidates Battle for Jewish Vote

\”He\’s a soul mate in terms of environmental sensitivity and good government,\” said Dave Freeman, about mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa. Freeman, former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), paused for just a moment, then continued in his Southern accent, \”I just think he has the ability to advance an agenda more focused on what I consider Jewish values.\”

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