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Picture looks bleak for mural adorning former JCC

The mural was meant to be a collaboration: A public arts agency led the bid for its creation, the surrounding community approved its design and Chicago artist John Pitman Weber stayed in the homes of local residents while he and a team of volunteers painted it during the summer of 1993.

City Voice: Condo conversions cause casualties

In Jewish communities in Los Angeles, tenants are uneasily contemplating a fate increasingly familiar to renters – the conversion of their building to condominiums.

Prefab housing gets ‘fab’

Prefab indeed has the potential to lend itself to being \”green\” by using materials more efficiently, wasting less space, and generally creating structures that are lower maintenance.

Baja community begins where the land ends

Cabo San Lucas is at the western end of what has become a 20-mile corridor of hotels and gated communities known collectively as Los Cabos. In the last year a very visible and increasingly vibrant Jewish community is taking shape where the land meets the sea.

Cozy Kosher Surf Shack — Observant Oasis in the ‘Bu

Situated a quick jaywalk across Pacific Coast Highway from Surfrider Beach and the Malibu Pier, Malibu Beach Grill is a kosher oasis in a town renowned for breathtaking seaside vistas, A-list celebrity sightings and new-age crunchiness.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Like most L.A. residents, we\’ve moved many times over the years. From Santa Monica to Culver City, Marina del Rey and then Westwood, it\’s not easy to pick up and move 10 or 20 miles with everything you own. At least, that\’s how we felt until a little over a year ago, when we made the 7,582-mile move to Jerusalem.

Warren Buffett’s Jewish Connection

Warren Buffett is not a Jew; in fact, he describes himself as an agnostic. Still, the billionaire investment guru, who made big news in May when his Berkshire Hathaway corporation bought an 80 percent share in the Israeli metalworks conglomerate, Iscar, for $4 billion, for years has been making his mark on the U.S. Jewish community back home — although sometimes in a roundabout way.

Israel Real Estate Sales to Foreign Buyers on the Rise

Americans seeking to buy in Jerusalem prefer the neighborhoods of Talbiyeh, Rehavia, Katamon, Baka and Sha\’arei Hessed, and are willing to pay up to $1million for apartments of less than 100 square meters, Hershkowitz said. Recently they have discovered Nahlaot, he added, and many people are now buying their holiday homes in this more colorful part of Jerusalem.

Negev + Galilee = Israel’s Future

\”Real Zionism is to encourage all to move to the Negev and the Galilee,\” said Transportation Minister Meir Sheetrit, adding that the key to developing the peripheries lies in improving transportation to the center of the country. Efficient transportation, he said, will change the periphery into suburbia.

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