Los Angeles

Anti-Semitic vandalism leads to hate crime charges in L.A.

Los Angeles prosecutors have filed hate crimes charges against a local man for scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti outside a Jewish-owned plumbing business.

L.A. Jews charged in $33 million bank fraud flee to Israel

Two Los Angeles Jews charged with participating in a $33 million bank fraud have fled to Israel.

Harvey Fields, longtime rabbi at L.A. temple, dies

Rabbi Harvey Fields, senior rabbi at the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles for 23 years, has died.

United States

Calif. shuts down L.A. kapparot on eve of Yom Kippur

Seeking Kin

Seeking Kin: For a once-fading L.A. synagogue, a 90th anniversary to celebrate

Culture

David Wolpe apologizes to showy bar mitzvah boy

United States

Councilman Garcetti is first elected Jewish mayor of Los Angeles

United States

For L.A. investigator, exposing kosher meat fraud was a ‘mitzvah’

Lifestyle

Kosher scandals like Doheny are rare, but not unheard of

United States

L.A. kosher meat market targeted in federal probe

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