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If You’re Hungry During a Fast, Don’t Tweet: 12 Summer Lessons for Mid-August
My city isn’t a tawdry reality TV show
Every few years, Salinas grabs national media headlines for the wrong reasons: Police killings of criminal suspects caught on camera.
How Jews are trying to make things better after Baltimore
From roundtable discussions to protests and prayers to candid talk with law enforcement officials, American Jewish communities are joining in the debate about community policing in the wake of several high-profile deaths of unarmed black men while in police custody.
Why racial issues matter to the Jewish community
My brother-in-law is from Mexico and he jokes with his brothers about the “crime” they commit when getting in the car: they call it DWB, driving while brown.
L.A. Cancer Challenge: Running for lives of others
When thousands of racers line up at the Veterans Affairs grounds in West Los Angeles on Oct. 26, it will be to raise awareness for a devastating type of cancer sometimes linked to mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that are more prevalent in Ashkenazi Jews.
Cops, race and violence
The recent death of Michael Brown has elicited strong reactions across the political spectrum—from Bill O’Reilly to Louis Farrakhan—everyone seems to have an opinion on how law enforcement interacts with young black males and the likelihood of black males being shot by cops.