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“We lost an institution that people grew up at and had life experiences at,” Jason Moss, who leads the local Federation, told JNS. “All of it’s gone.”
“If you don’t have the best schools, you don’t have the best teachers,” said Richard Sandler, executive vice president of the foundation.
A team of Israeli high-schoolers from kibbutzim in the Gaza Envelope came to Los Angeles and were received with open arms by the community.
“As our hearts ache for so many affected by the war, the sense of community was pervasive,” said Meir Fenigstein, the event’s executive director.
The investigator “clicked his heels together and extended one of his arms out like Hitler,” and said “‘hike’ or ‘height,’” per a report from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, hopes “this resolution will lead to other college administrators implementing these or similar measures.”
A pro-Trump voter, who grew up in Iran, told JNS “it’s a fantastic thing” that the former president won reelection.
The LAPD told JNS it is investigating the incidents as a hate crime.
“They asked me to put it down, and I refused,” said Aviv Geffen.
“Just as wood goes through the fire, when a nation goes through flames it can come out stronger on the other side,” the artist Jonathan York told JNS.
“One year on, we remember with sadness and sorrow, but we also remember with strength,” said Rabbi Noah Farkas, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation Los Angeles.
Year-long course at LA shul to prepare students for facing hate on campus
“I want them to realize that when they share their story, people are going to respect them more than if they hide that story,” the program’s leader, Rabbi Erez Sherman of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, told JNS.
