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The Doctor Is In

Bill Boyarsky January 1, 2004

Listening to Howard Dean reminds me of going to a doctor who starts out the visit by saying, \”Bill, you really look sick.\”

Maybe I do, but I don\’t want to hear it expressed quite so bluntly. Just like I didn\’t want to hear Dr. Dean saying in Los Angeles Dec. 15, \”The capture of Saddam has not made America safer.\”

Dean\’s pessimism was hard to take, especially right after the bearded villain was hauled out of the ground by American troops.

Newsstand Wisdom

Bill Boyarsky December 4, 2003

If you want to know what\’s going on, talk to the guy who runs the newsstand.

That would be David Mallel, who owns the well-stocked newsstand at Fairfax and Oakwood avenues in the heart of the Fairfax District. He keeps attuned to the political feelings of his well-read clientele by seeing what they buy and mixing those observations with his own experiences as a lifelong member of the Los Angeles Jewish community.

Westside Jews Divided on Recall

Bill Boyarsky October 2, 2003

Exploring the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, where Republicans once were the smallest of minorities, I happened upon a nest of recall supporters who were also great admirers of President Bush. Talking to them, I got a sense of the changing politics of Los Angeles\’ Jewish community, where votes can no longer be taken for granted.

They were students of Netan Eli High School, seated around a table in the lunch-room, talking politics. I\’d happened on the school the previous afternoon while looking for people to interview about the Oct. 7 election. I introduced myself to Rabbi Sholom D. Weil, the principal, and general studies principal Avi Erblich, and they were nice enough to set up a meeting with students.

Fervent Political

Bill Boyarsky September 4, 2003

How does a Jewish community journalist cover such a non-Jewish election?

City View

Bill Boyarsky July 31, 2003

When Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis was the eloquent young rabbi of Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, he gave many uncompromising sermons against the social and economic injustices that afflicted the community.

Activists Looking to Past for Inspiration

Bill Boyarsky July 3, 2003

When I arrived in Los Angeles, I was drawn to Boyle Heights, a Latino community that had once been the home of Los Angeles Jewish radical life.

It wasn\’t that I was looking for Eastside, left-wing Jewish roots. I didn\’t have any. When my grandparents lived in Los Angeles before moving north, they had a grocery store in Eagle Rock and later one near Bunker Hill. My mother commuted to UCLA by bus and streetcar to attend the first classes on the Westwood campus.

Partisans for Israel

Bill Boyarsky June 5, 2003

The crowd in front of the Jewish Republicans\’ booth didn\’t approach the size of those at some of the better food stands at the Israel\’s Independence Day celebration at Woodley Park in the San Fernando Valley. Still, it was big enough to interest me after having watched the GOP\’s long courtship of Jews; for years, it\’s been a romance that sometimes reached the engagement party but usually fell short of the chuppah.

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