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January 22, 2014
Al-Qaeda cell arrested in plot to attack U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv
An al-Qaeda cell suspected of planning several terror attacks in Israel, including on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, was arrested.
New kosher oversight board established
A group of local Orthodox rabbis has begun regularly inspecting the businesses in Los Angeles certified as kosher by the Rabbinical Council of California (RCC)
Calendar January 25-31
Sometimes there is such thing as a free lunch. SoCal Museums is bringing you its ninth annual day of free art and culture, with 20 Southern California museums banding together to get you through their doors.
Letters to the editor: UCLA’s agenda, Eshman’s pomegranate tree and the wealthy Americans
Dennis Prager contends that American university curricula promote a liberal agenda (“UCLA’s Further Deterioration,” Jan. 10). In fact, the opposite is true.
Obituaries
Leonard Baum died Dec. 31 at 85. Survived by wife Marilyn; daughter Marla (Mark) Saltzman; sons Bruce (Lynn), Stuart; 4 grandchildren; sister Betty Novicoff. Mount Sinai
Snowden denies he got help from Russia in leaking U.S. secrets
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking U.S. government secrets and that suggestions by some U.S. lawmakers he might have had help from Russia were \”absurd,\” the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday.
Jonathan Pollard case is about America
America is far from being an anti-Semitic country. In fact, it might be the first country in Jewish history where it’s actually “cool” to be Jewish. That’s one reason I’ve been so reluctant over the years to weigh in on the Jonathan Pollard affair — I’m so in love with this country and all it’s done for the Jews that the last thing I want is to appear ungrateful or, worse, disloyal.
Los Angeles! Go join the protest for African refugee rights outside your Israeli consulate right now
The Sholem Aleichem Exchange, Part 1: What the Great Yiddish Author Meant to the Lower East Side
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