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November 23, 2011

Ozomatli: Band of the people

The Latin band Ozomatli is rocking out on the flatbed of a truck parked on a closed-down Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a Saturday in early November, and the band is playing for a motley group of aging and 20-something hippies, union workers and even some Jews from the Westside, all of whom are dancing in the street a few hundred yards from the Occupy L.A. encampment on the grounds outside City Hall.

Chanukah for the kids

\”Chanukah Lights,” by Michael J. Rosen and Robert Sabuda (Candlewick: $34.99) is a Chanukah book like no other, a beautiful collaboration from two masters of their fields: author Rosen and pop-up-book artist extraordinaire, Sabuda.

On his way to shul, man struck, killed by van

On Nov. 22 at 6 a.m., at the intersection of La Brea and Oakwood avenues, Berish Landau, 88, was killed while crossing the same street in the same way he did every morning — on his way to pray and study at Kollel Yechiel Yehuda in Hancock Park. A car was coming too fast, didn’t see him and ran him over.

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