Like The Stage Deli in Manhattan, landlords seeking higher rents have forced the closure of one of L.A.'s premiere Jewish delicatessens, Junior's Deli. JooTube takes you on a walkthrough with co-owner, David Saul, on the night of their final dinners.
Over 1,000 diners crowd the 53-year old establishment upon its closing, with several sharing their perspectives on the Jewish deli and its role in their lives.
Orthodox rabbis discuss "The Quest for Spirituality- Timeless Challenge, Contemporary Solutions"- OU West Convention 2012
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| Rabbi Jacob Schacter opened the keynote |
Rabbis discussed "The Quest for Spirituality- Timeless Challenge: Contemporary Solutions" at the Orthodox Union West Convention '12 opening keynote address, last night, 12/20/2012.
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| David Suissa, of Jewish Journal of LA |
Presenting on video are Rabbis Jacob J. Schacter, Steven Weil, Mayer May (of Simon Wiesenthal Center), and Ilan Feldman (of Atlanta). Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center expressed his observations about the evening.
Diverse, Friends of the I.D.F. convincingly compensate for Stevie Wonder's bow-out
Friends of IDF event spurned by Stevie Wonder raises more than $14 million
by Marcy Oster, JTA, Dec 9, 2012The singer had come under intense social media pressure to pull out of the event. An online petition calling on him to cancel his performance had garnered more than 3,600 signatures.
The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces fundraiser that singer Stevie Wonder pulled out of raised more than $14 million.
More than 1,400 people attended the event in Los Angeles to aid Israeli soldiers. Entertainment mogul Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl chaired the gala. Saban is a national board member of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Actor Jason Alexander emceed the event, which featured a performance by David Foster and Friends. Surprise musical performances were presented by "American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard and 10-time Grammy winner Chaka Khan.
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Wonder had come under intense social media pressure to pull out of the event. An online petition calling on him to cancel his performance had garnered more than 3,600 signatures.
The Grammy-winning singer's representatives cited a recommendation from the United Nations to withdraw his participation given his involvement with the UN. Wonder is a Messenger of Peace of the world body. He had performed at a 1998 gala honoring Israel's 50th anniversary.
Funds raised at the event will go toward Friends of the IDF’s well-being and educational programs for Israeli soldiers and the Negev Wellbeing and Educational Centers.
Menorah lighting and Chanukah concert in L.A. draws many revelers, civic leaders
Jewish kids given public Chanukah celebration at L.A.'s Universal CityWalk.
On Sunday, December 9th, L.A.'s 1th annual menorah lighting at Universal Studios CityWalk, brought more than 1000 people to be entertained by Jewish performers, among them rock-band 8th Day, Piamenta-NextGen, and rave-pianist Mendel Simon.(Click second button on bottom left to advance through the playlist of clips).
Rabbi Jonathan Herzog coordinated civic leaders Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilman Mike Zine, City Controller and mayoral candidate Wendy Gruel, and Israel Consul General David Siegel to master the reluctant oil lamps and kindle the menorah on the second night of Chanukah, 2012 with Rabbi Morty Einbinder of Chabad of the Valley. Universal Studios Hollywood President, Larry Kurzweil led the lighting, welcomed the celebrants, and offered encouragement and support for America's ally, the Holy Land of Israel.
Chabad of Simcha Monica celebrates the meaning of Hanukah in menorah-restricted Santa Monica
Rabbis Shlomo Menkes, Issac Levitansky, Shlomo Heidingsfeld, and Rebbitzens Devorah and Suri Levitansky lead families of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect to welcome the 1st night of Hanukah- 3-blocks from the Santa Monica beach on the Pacific Ocean.
Atheists recently led the City of Santa Monica, California to prohibit leaving religious holiday displays (such as the extensive Nativity-Scene diaramas which had overlooked the beach). The Hanukah Menorah which for over a decade had remained on the Promenade for the 8-days of Hanukah, like the Nativity displays, now can only be displayed during a live celebration. The Menorah in the background was removed at the 11pm Saturday conclusion of the event.
Any other menorahs placed in Santa Monica from now on (without a live accompaniment) will be on private property.
Atheists recently led the City of Santa Monica, California to prohibit leaving religious holiday displays (such as the extensive Nativity-Scene diaramas which had overlooked the beach). The Hanukah Menorah which for over a decade had remained on the Promenade for the 8-days of Hanukah, like the Nativity displays, now can only be displayed during a live celebration. The Menorah in the background was removed at the 11pm Saturday conclusion of the event.
Any other menorahs placed in Santa Monica from now on (without a live accompaniment) will be on private property.
Prof. Alan Dershowitz & 1st Israeli Paralympics gold-medaller, Noam Gershony, address Zionist advocacy group StandWithUs
Elon Gold performed master-of-ceremonies services for the L.A.-based, Zionist advocacy organization, Stand With Us', Festival of Lights fundraising dinner 12/2/12. The 11-year old group primarily serves Zionist-advocacy assistance on academic campuses. Prof. Alan Dershowitz delivered remarks about Israel's problems from the White House and the United Nations.
The attendees were also addressed by Israel's first, gold-medal winning paralympian, wheelchair tennis athlete (downed helicopter pilot) Noam Gershony (who bested his American opponent to win the finals). From the Israeli Consulate, Consul General David Siegel, Carolyn ben Natan, and Danny Gadot attended. The 11th anniversary brought together a number of early L.A. Zionist activists, including Gary Ratner (now an executive at StandWithUs), Scott Jacobs, editor of JewTube.Info, and Allyson Rowen Taylor (like Ratner, formerly with the AJC, today an interior designer, artist, and painter). Philanthropic families- Ellie and Bruce Lederman and Debbie and Naty Saidoff contributed to hosting the event.
Prof. Alan Dershowitz's keynote speech before 1100 attendees, touched on Hamas, Gaza, apartheid, Iran, and the Obama White House.
Pathologist at Arafat's hospital breaks silence: "Absolutely no way Arafat was poisoned!"
In a report by Anica Pommeray published in the Times of Israel (Nov 13, '12) Dr. Roland Masse, a specialist on radioactivity and professor at Percy military hospital which treated Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, declared that Arafat had been tested for radioactive poisoning, and its symptoms would have been ‘impossible to miss.’.A leading French doctor who teaches at the Paris hospital where Yasser Arafat died in 2004 has broken the official French medical silence surrounding the case to tell The Times of Israel, based on Arafat’s medical report, that there is “absolutely no way” the Palestinian leader was poisoned.
Dr. Roland Masse, a member of the prestigious Académie de Médecine who currently teaches radiopathology at Percy Military Training Hospital in the Paris suburb of Clamart, where Arafat was hospitalized two weeks before his death on November 11 eight years ago, spoke to The Times of Israel to scotch the allegations of polonium poisoning two weeks before a group of scientists are set to take samples for testing from Arafat’s body.
Masse said the symptoms of polonium poisoning would have been “impossible to miss,” noted that Percy had tested Arafat for radiation poisoning, and revealed that the hospital specializes in the related field of radiation detection. “A lethal level of polonium simply cannot go unnoticed,” he said, speaking as workers in Ramallah on Tuesday began the process of preparing Arafat’s grave for exhumation.
Pat Condell says jihadist Hamas, not Israel, is the obstacle to Palestinians' freedom
Lucid cultural analyst, Britain's Pat Condell, shatters the cowed Western delusion that jihadist Palestinian Hamas can be negotiated into providing peace for Gazan Arabs or Israel before they conquer the Jewish state.
Israelis join Jews & Christians in confronting their detractors, Islamst / Far-Left antagonists
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| Maya Hayon, 17, counselor with Israeli Scouts of America demonstrates support for Israeli Pillar of Defense at L.A. rally |
L.A. riot-squad riflemen close down major intersection to separate factions
As occurred during 2008's Operation Cast Lead, Israel's Operation "Pillar of Defense" to neutralize Hamas' incessant terror rocketing, incites anti-Israel activity on the streets and in the media. Much of the Hamas provoking Israeli retaliative casualties (and corresponding, western Islamist/anti-Capitalist street protesting) occurs for the purpose of directing the media to vilify Israel and build international pressure against her; and to stimulate public empathy towards the Palestinian Arabs- which generates international aid and political benefits (such as support in the U.N. for Palestinian nationalism- precluding the Oslo obligations for direct negotiations.Islamist activists groups work hand in hand with sophisticated, far-left activist groups- united in their desire to weaken and assume leadership over capitalist America and Israel. On Thursday eve 15 Nov, an anti-Israel rally was held outside of the new Israeli Consulate location in L.A. by American Muslims for Palestine carrying placards and signs given to them by the far-left ANSWER. No Israel-advocacy group counter-protested the well-organized (and led chanting) anti-Zionists. Merely a handful of concerned Jews individually showed-up to counter-protest.
The anti-Zionist axis is indignant and aggressive- especially as the pro-Israel groups who might come down are reasoning, Jewish-Americans who assume that by declaring that "Israel wants peace" they'll somehow claim the high-ground over ethnic minorities who want to kill them because their fellow colonialist Zionists dispossessed them from their indigenous homeland. But as this video from Friday's San Francisco Pro-Hamas (meaning anti-Zionist) demonstration shows, perceived weak counter-protests embolden aggression, such as this anti-Semitic lesbian karate-kicking a 62-year old man in the abdomen.
(video courtesy: Alba 5431)
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While the 4-year old, Israeli Leadership Council, with a membership of Israeli-immigrant Americans, has organized cultural and educational events, on Sunday 18 Nov they joined with Jewish-American groups to come out and rally public support for Israel. And without a great deal of slogan-chanting organization, while many mothers and daughters sang songs of peace, many of the men (and women)- who are I.D.F. military veterans- felt antagonized by the vitriolic Islamist/Marxists whose protest was smaller and weaker. Some of the Israelis crossed Wilshire Blvd to get better heard by the anti-Zionists. And there were only a few police there (unlike Thursday night) and a scuffle broke out in which an Arab slipped, but police and private security separated the small group.Tempers flare at pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles -
(Courtesy IsraeliRally)
L.A. pro/anti-Israel rally draws menacing response towards Jews from police
Do the Israelis and Zionists (several Christians joined the Jewish Americans) have a right to be able to assemble without being intimidated by the militaristic conduct of the police which ensued? StandWithUs leader, Roz Rothstein told JooTube that the police wanted to disperse the pro-Israel crowd- and asked her to do it from the police car megaphone. Most complied, though there were a few who lingered in the parking lot of the Federal Building - the same lot in which many of the aggressive Islamists & Leftists needed to enter to get their cars out. The police created a protective circle around them and escorted them to the lot- backed by the rifle wielding riot-squad.
Not that the Muslims really had any reason to fear in the parking lot. But will the Israeli-immigrants continue to put a little skin in the game? And how will they influence the tone of representing the Jewish community against anti-Zionist, Jew-hate rallies- which, in war times, can morph into pogroms?
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| Proud, Israeli-American young people the police separated the Islamo-Marxists from
StandWithUs co-leader Roz Rothstein reflects on the pro-Israel gathering, the Islamo-Leftist counter-protest, and the militaristic police response.
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Rabbi Parry counters anti-Israel protest at Israeli Consulate in L.A. almost singlehandedly
Outside the Israeli Consulate in L.A Thurs eve 15 Nov, Islamist & far-leftist anti-Zionist groups (led by American Muslims for Palestine) stage a vitriolic protest to Israel's attempt to stop incessant Palestinian terrorist rocketing.
The protest (which drew reporters from all local TV stations) was counter-rallied by not one, single, pro-Israel organization in Israel's defense. Rabbi Moshe Parry, an unemployed teacher, stepped-up to challenge the protestors and provide a Zionist perspective to the media.
But one of the the Muslim protestors we interviewed, Gazan-born, Ziad el-Alami, reveals an objective which goes far beyond the immediate- their goal is to conquer the State of Israel. Rabbi Parry declares that Jews will never be safe alongside an irredentist movement in (Gaza and Judea & Samaria) convinced to conquer the Jewish state.
The protest (which drew reporters from all local TV stations) was counter-rallied by not one, single, pro-Israel organization in Israel's defense. Rabbi Moshe Parry, an unemployed teacher, stepped-up to challenge the protestors and provide a Zionist perspective to the media.
But one of the the Muslim protestors we interviewed, Gazan-born, Ziad el-Alami, reveals an objective which goes far beyond the immediate- their goal is to conquer the State of Israel. Rabbi Parry declares that Jews will never be safe alongside an irredentist movement in (Gaza and Judea & Samaria) convinced to conquer the Jewish state.
L.A. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival spotlights the Sephardic identity and experience
L.A. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival's co-chair, Neil Sheff, talks about the Sephardic experience. The bi-annual Festival runs at the Laemmle Music Hall Theater through Sunday, November 18th.
Promotional video about the 10th bi-annual, L.A. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival to benefit the Sephardic Educational Center.
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, International Executive Director of the Sephardic Educational Center in Jerusalem, translates the remarks by Israeli Knesset Member, Rabbi Haim Amsalem (Shas Party) following the screening of "The Visionary: The Life of Rabbi Benzion Hai Uziel" - biographing Israel's first, Sephardic Chief Rabbi.
Promotional video about the 10th bi-annual, L.A. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival to benefit the Sephardic Educational Center.
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, International Executive Director of the Sephardic Educational Center in Jerusalem, translates the remarks by Israeli Knesset Member, Rabbi Haim Amsalem (Shas Party) following the screening of "The Visionary: The Life of Rabbi Benzion Hai Uziel" - biographing Israel's first, Sephardic Chief Rabbi.
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