The still-simmering flap over forged endorsements for Mayor James Hahn is the classic scandal that didn\’t have to be. A little more than a week ago, this incident grew from niche story — something that only Jewish Journal readers might notice — to the week\’s hottest local political fracas, with widespread coverage in newspapers and on radio and TV.
What is the touchstone that unites a 26.2-mile marathon with a Siyum Hashas celebration of completing the 7.5-year page-a-day Talmud cycle?
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Sometime in the early 1980s, a new type of crime was identified. It was called \”hate crime.\” Although the conduct which hate crime laws were aimed at was already criminal, the new laws targeted the motivation for the crime.
The next Congress will look a lot like the last one, which was marked by unprecedented partisan strife and legislative gridlock.
Perhaps it makes sense that Allyson Schwartz\’s campaign headquarters sits above a Russian Jewish market on a small strip mall — after all, Schwartz is considered to have the best chance of any candidate to join the Jewish caucus in Congress.
There are three phases to every election, Los Angeles City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa recently told me: there\’s the primary, there\’s the runoff and then there\’s the home stretch.
Gal Fridman of Israel celebrates winning his gold medal in the men\’s windsurfer mistral finals race during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
The leadership of our mainstream political parties meanwhile vowed that in the future, they would prevent the hijacking of their congressional nominations by extremists. For a quarter of a century, they were mostly able to keep that vow — up until now.
Jews are attentive, high-propensity voters. Nearly one in five Los Angeles voters are Jewish (with only 6 percent of the population). If past history is a guide, however, the Jewish vote will play a more important role in the expected runoff between the two top candidates than in the multicandidate primary.
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