Fiesta Shalom

The City of Los Angeles and the State of Israel have long been bound together by so much — by ties of blood and family; by connections of culture and commerce; by relationships founded on religious conviction, on the pillars of faith, on shared values and on the belief that diversity is not a reason for division, but a source of our greatest strength.

Many years ago, a conservative commentator, frustrated that Jews continued to vote largely for Democrats, said it best: “Jews live like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.” That sentence nicely captures the odd fact that Jews and Latinos, often quite different in their socioeconomic positions, have much in common politically.