Thirty-one years after the founding of what was intended to be the nationally definitive model for a community newspaper, America’s second largest Jewish population, Los Angeles, remains homeless, denied a genuine communal newspaper. The observation arises because the egomaniacal far left editor, under cloudy circumstances, mercifully departed after last week’s edition. Says he doesn’t know where he is going. We … Read More

Second of two parts Re “On the Road with a Phon-y Setback” What could go wrong just because you were spending five days on the road without your cell phone – and you were traveling alone? My first visit to Seattle to share Rosh Hashana with my fiancé Shira was quieter than intended. Since the two days of Rosh Hashana … Read More

This won’t take long, did it?   A woman who has conducted business in this town for 23 years was watching last Monday’s City Council meeting from the comfort of her mid-city condo.   She took a moment to elevate her usually firm jaw back to its normal level.   She was inclined to treat the Council’s hurricane-style vote on … Read More

Dateline Jerusalem — This week a friend and I traveled to the city of Netanya, which literally means Gift of G-d.   The seventh largest city in Israel with a population of 200,000 people, Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus, an original co-owner of Macy’s department stores in the States.   In 1912, Nathan fell in love with the … Read More

It was the kind of bizarro scene normal people have learned to expect ever since mouthy ethnic far left bigots like state Sen. Kevin de Leon high-jacked the Legislature and declared that California welcomes all foreign outlaws.   After leftist racial provocateurs succeeded in coaxing the duh-minded in the National Football League to bang their drinking cups against the bars … Read More

All orbs were on Vice Mayor Small going into Monday evening’s City Council meeting where the sexiest retail rules regarding freshly legalized marijuana sales would be decided.   The Council was exactly divided on which way to lean.   The vice mayor was the lone undeclared vote on determining whether and how many retail dispensaries should be allowed.   What … Read More

Jim Clarke offered a pragmatic explanation for why he changed sides at Monday’s City Council meeting when members were polled on whether to approve retail cannabis dispensaries in Culver City neighborhoods next year.   “I made the argument for why I thought there should not be retail,” he said.   “We (Mr. Clarke and Goran Eriksson) lost that argument.   … Read More

There never was a question that Rosh Hashana (last Thursday and Friday) would be gold this year. My fiancé Shira and I would be spending our first Jewish holiday together in Seattle, her almost hometown, where she would be visiting family. Were we a few days younger, this would have been tantamount to meeting her parents for the first time. … Read More

The only downside to spending five days surrounding Rosh Hashanah in Seattle with my fiancé Shira occurred upon arrival at LAX. Leaping from a friend’s car as we drew up to a skycap, I retrieved my luggage, bid him farewell and proceeded to check in. Horrors. Approaching the TSA counter, I reached for the pocket where my cell phone safely … Read More