Like many across the country, I was stunned to read reports concerning the February 10th meeting of the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council.
French officials are investigating whether a child shown shooting dead an Israeli Arab in a video posted by Islamic State militants is French and has ties to an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in March 2012, a police source said.
“I miss Billy Bob,” Los Angeles native Tali Samson Slifkin said as she looked at a glass cage housing a bright-green iguana with a wrinkled, gleaming chin.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday execution should be Israel\’s answer to deadly \”Arab terror,\” adding more fire to an election campaign in which he has suggested disloyal Israeli Arabs should be beheaded.
Five years after the debut of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, their South Pacific explored this theme in a more exotic context.
Some three years ago, film director-writer-actor Thomas McCarthy was sitting at his desk, in his office located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, playing with ideas for a movie, when the proverb about walking in another man’s shoes popped into his head.
“Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition” represents not only “the birth of modern Judaism but also of Christianity … and later, Islam. … So we’re really celebrating the Abrahamic traditions and monotheistic religions,” explained David Siegel, the consul general of Israel in Los Angeles, during a press conference last week.
After local Iranian-Jewish community activists received information in February that Akbar Abdi, an Iranian Muslim comedian notorious for his anti-Semitism, would be traveling to the United States from Iran to perform Farsi language shows in Southern California, they launched a grass-roots campaign to have the U.S. Department of State revoke the comedian’s visa.
Now and then, a politician comes along who is both cantankerous and somehow lovable, highly principled and yet open to argument, possessed of both a sense of honor and a sense of humor.
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