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Ann Strimov Durbin
March 27, 2019
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‘Pokémon Go’ capturing Jewish hearts and sites around L.A.
Ryan Torok
July 27, 2016
With “Pokémon Go” suddenly a craze across the world, it was only a matter of time before the augmented reality game’s creatures started showing up at Jewish sites across Los Angeles.
Jewish progressive org invokes Freedom Summer murders to protest Trump
Eitan Arom
June 22, 2016
The heat wave had broken by the time Pastor Cue Jn-marie stood up June 21 at the auditorium of Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax District before a mostly-Jewish audience of about 40. But as he spoke, his anger seemed to boil over.
A ‘walk’ to remember
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2013
With African drumming and a chorus of shofars, more than 2,000 people in purple T-shirts reading “I walk to tip the scales” gathered in Pan Pacific Park on April 14 to call attention to global injustice.
Each Holocaust story unique, yet the same
Jonah Lowenfeld
April 25, 2012
“How does one commemorate 5.7 million dead?” Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer asked the audience gathered in Pan Pacific Park for Los Angeles’ annual community Yom HaShoah commemoration on April 22. “You can’t, really. How does one avoid the clichés, in saying things that everybody expects you to say?”
Holocaust Remembrance Day Draws Crowds to Pan Pacific
Jonah Lowenfeld
May 4, 2011
An estimated 2,000 people gathered on May 1 for Los Angeles’ annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pan Pacific Park. The crowd, which included octogenarians in wheelchairs, infants in strollers and people of all ages in between, listened to speeches from elected officials and community leaders who exhorted them to remember the murder of millions of innocent European Jews during World War II, which ended 66 years ago.
Iran threat dominates L.A. Yom HaShoah event in speeches by civic leaders, Israeli dignitaries
Susan Freudenheim
April 12, 2010
On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, April 11, a crowd numbering almost 3,000 gathered under blue-and-white stripped awnings to listen to speeches in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the day of Holocaust commemoration.
Author Speaks on Propoganda’s Role in Mass Murder
Tom Tugend
April 23, 2009
Los Angeles will memorialize the killing of six million Jews at a Holocaust Remembrance Day observance on Sunday, April 26, with author Daniel Goldhagen as the keynote speaker.
Best street for a J-cation? Fairfax!
Jewish Journal
July 3, 2008
In a summer of rising airfares and gas prices, you need to take a trip that is close by, low cost, in town and that will fill you with Jewish stories. The best place to do that? Fairfax Avenue. The area\’s sidewalks, walls and parks remain populated with monuments, plaques, murals and statues of Jewish cultural and spiritual significance. Take a local J-cation.
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