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Elena Colomba draws a Star of David at a Thousand Oaks, California, street corner where a Jewish pro-Israel protester, Paul Kessler, was killed during an altercation, 7 November 2023. (Jacob Gurvis)
May 8, 2026, 10:21 am
Jewish leaders lament ‘woefully inadequate’ sentence after California man pleads guilty in death of pro-Israel protester
Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji initially pled not guilty to causing the death of Paul Kessler during a November 2023 altercation
By Grace Gilson
Left to right: Bruneil Henry Chamaki, Roma Akoyans and Ramon Akoyans. Credit: San Jose Police
March 17, 2026, 1:17 pm
Three arrested over attack on Israeli Americans – no hate crime charges filed
Suspects charged over San Jose assault on Israeli Americans, but prosecutors say hate crime element remains under investigation
By Annabel Sinclair
Moment three men attack two Israeli Americans outside a restaurant in San Jose. Credit: X
March 11, 2026, 1:33 pm
Two Israeli Americans beaten in California attack after speaking Hebrew
Police probe possible hate crime after daylight assault outside San Jose restaurant where victims were reportedly targeted with antisemitic abuse
By Annabel Sinclair
FBI Director Kash Patel
December 15, 2025, 4:37 pm
FBI arrests four members of ‘Pro-Palestinian’ group over terror plot
Splinter group from the 'Turtle Island Liberation Front' accused of planning mass terror attack in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve
By Jewish News Reporter
University of California, Los Angeles. Photo: Wikipedia
July 30, 2025, 9:59 am
UCLA settles antisemitism lawsuit with £4.6M payout, including donations to Jewish groups
The settlement is the largest of its kind in a campus antisemitism case and includes funding for Hillel, the ADL and others
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Kessler died from a blunt force head injury and it was homicide, according to the sheriff’s department
November 7, 2023, 8:49 am
Jewish man dies after confrontation at California Israel-Palestine protests
Death of Paul Kessler, 69, being treated as homicide after he fell backwards and hit his head on the ground
By Candice Krieger
Rabbi Yisroel hugs a member of the congregation of Chabad of Poway the day after a deadly shooting took place there, on Sunday, April 28, 2019 in Poway, Calif. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)
January 5, 2022, 4:13 pm
Poway rabbi injured in 2019 shooting sentenced to 14 months in fraud case
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who lost a finger in the California attack, will be confined to his home
By JTA
Credit: Mayor Steinberg on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Mayor_Steinberg/status/1300179877249691648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
September 4, 2020, 11:15 am
Israeli firefighters arrive in California to help battle wildfires
The delegation landed Sunday and is scheduled to remain for approximately two weeks
By JTA
Members of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, Calif., giving a Nazi salute. (Instagram/Daily Beast via JTA)
August 20, 2019, 10:35 am
American students make Nazi salute at awards ceremony
Incident, which resurfaced through a video on Instagram, took place last year and involved 10 members of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in California
By JTA
George Rosenkranz (Wikipedia/Science History Institute, David J. Babb)
June 25, 2019, 2:20 pm
Chemist who helped make birth control pill, George Rosenkranz, dies at 102
He and two Jewish chemists synthesised the progesterone that was to be used in one of the first two combined oral contraceptive pills.
By JTA
Screenshot from video by TMZ, showing the reception where the couple celebrated their marriage
November 30, 2018, 10:28 am
Quentin Tarantino marries Israeli singer Daniela Pick under a huppah
By JTA
Congregation Beth Shalom in Modesto, California. (Screen capture/Google Street View)
October 12, 2018, 1:01 pm
Man starts fire at US shul and draws devil outside
Police arrested Brett Bisnett in California and he could be charged with vandalism after the incident at Congregation Beth Shalom.
By JTA
Flames ravaged through southern california Credit: Scott Dworkin's video on Twitter (@funder)
December 7, 2017, 4:11 pm
Los Angeles Jewish institutions close as fire threatens
Synagogues and centres of learning are shut as several large blazes rage through southern California
By JTA
Adolf Hitler alongside senior Nazis Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess (Wikipedia/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
October 23, 2017, 1:11 pm
Jewish spies reportedly stopped Nazis getting foothold in US
New book reveals Los Angeles Jewish lawyer's networks infiltrated far-right meetings in the 1930s
The scene at Hagafen Cellars after wildfires raging in Northern California burned land, vegetation and equipment, Oct. 10, 2017. (Picture credit: Hagafen Cellars on Facebook)
October 12, 2017, 10:42 am
Kosher winery damaged as wildfires rage on in Northern California
Jewish community reaches out to help victims of deadly blaze which has taken the lives of 17 people and damaged vineyards
By Sue Fishkoff (JTA)
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