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May 14, 2013
Cleveland kidnappings: We must be our brother’s keeper
It is not our place to judge the neighbors of Ariel Castro. We don’t know enough about the particular circumstances of those who lived near this man who allegedly held three women hostage for a decade to be able to judge whether things could have been different had they been paying closer attention
Turkey’s Erdogan to push Obama on Syria after bombings
Turkey\’s prime minister will push President Barack Obama for more assertive action on Syria during a visit to Washington this week, days after car bombs tore through a Turkish border town in the deadliest spillover of violence yet.
Rachel Frenkel: Mezzo’s Kibbutz roots
It’s a long way from Kibbutz Dalia, where Rachel Frenkel was raised, to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, but the mezzo-soprano is completing that journey this week.
Press photo group stands by winning shot of Gaza funeral
World Press Photo says it has confirmed the veracity of an award-winning photograph of a Gaza funeral.
Venezuelan president: My grandparents were Jewish
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, denying that his government has an anti-Semitic bent, said his grandparents were of Sephardic Jewish descent.
A voter’s eye view of the Los Angeles election
This year, for the first time, the Pat Brown Institute at CSU Los Angeles went into the polling field.
‘Arrested Development’ season 4 arrives
In less than two weeks the fourth season of “Arrested Development” premieres on Netflix. It’s been seven very long years since the last episode, but if this trailer is any indication, the Bluth family is still the most delightfully dysfunctional Jewish family to ever be portrayed on screen.
Is Obama George W. — or even Nixon? The secrecy factor
The Obama administration has in recent weeks suffered a 1-2-3 scandal outbreak.
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