L’Chaim! Want to live to 100? Check your genes. (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Last week, Louis Biderman turned 99. Yet he can recall, in perfect detail, the trip he took to Los Angeles in 1938, 72 years ago. “I drove 3,000 miles to the coast, 3,000 miles back — all that within six weeks,” he said by phone from his Yonkers, N.Y., home.
Neighbors drop lawsuit against Wiesenthal Center (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
A group of neighbors has agreed to drop its lawsuit against the expansion of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. In return, the center will pay Homeowners Opposed to Museum Expansion $150,000 to cover legal fees and to purchase noise-monitoring equipment.
Nigerian massacre victims buried in mass grave (Los Angeles Times)
Survivors say Christian villagers were trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsman in attacks with ethnic and religious overtones. Death estimates vary wildly, from 200 to 500. Reporting from Ratsat, Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, and Lagos, Nigeria -- The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria on Monday as survivors told horrific stories of ...
Elderly Couple Die In Long Beach House Fire (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
Firefighters stumbled around huge piles of books, newspapers and old furniture Monday to battle a blaze in a "packrat" home where an elderly couple died, authorities said.
Holocaust Museum settled with Neighbors over Expansion (NBC Los Angeles)
Simon Wiesenthal Center pays $150,000 to settle lawsuit over planned Museum of Tolerance expansion.