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December 15, 2014
List set for March ballot on city council candidates
On Dec. 12, the Los Angeles City Clerk’s office finalized the list of candidates set to appear on the March 2015 ballot. In addition to seven City Council seats, Los Angeles voters will decide the fate of four seats on the Board of Education and four seats on the Community College Board of Trustees.
‘We must negotiate with Islamic State,’ senior mediator says
When Padraig O\’Malley says we must talk to Islamic State, he\’s speaking from experience.
Ferguson is Yiddish for forget
Judaism frequently demands that we remember. The Torah tells us to remember the Sabbath Day; that we were slaves in Egypt; and that the Amalekites attacked us.
Sony ‘R’ Us
The most shocking thing about the digital disemboweling of Sony Pictures’ computer data is that anyone would actually find it shocking.
Steven Sotloff’s parents to light public menorah in his memory
The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish journalist who was beheaded by a member of ISIS, will light a public menorah in Miami in his memory.
Palestinian U.N. statehood bid at heart of Kerry-Netanyahu talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said before talks on Monday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that he would defy any United Nations move to \”dictate\” a time frame for withdrawal from land Palestinians seek for a state.
Police storm Sydney cafe to end hostage siege, three dead
Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded.
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