Pacific Palisades Kehillat Israel Reopens After Fire

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Conceals Homeless Spending Failures

This piece examines Mayor Karen Bass’s tenure through one lens: accountability. It tracks the audit that could not account for billions, huge homeless program costs with poor outcomes, a near-billion dollar budget gap that was shuffled, sanctuary policies that drew federal action, and the handling of the Palisades fire. The goal is to show how failures accumulated while spectacle drowned scrutiny. The focus stays sharp on the record and what vot…

Pacific Palisades Kehillat Israel Reopens After Fire

On May 15, nearly 900 families of Kehillat Israel will carry their Torah scrolls back into their sanctuary, marking one of the first returns by a religious institution to Pacific Palisades since the January 2025 fire. Of KI's member families, 250 lost their homes entirely and another 250 were temporarily displaced.The reopening event coincides with the celebration of Cantor Chayim Frenkel's 40th anniversary of service to the congregation."Return…

The Best Thing Karen Bass Did Was Botch the Palisades Fire — And It Goes Downhill From There

The most fortunate thing that ever happened to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was the catastrophic Palisades fire of January