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Aug 13, 2015, 9:11 AM

Convicted Jewish Terrorists Support Organization Honenu Enjoys US Taxpayers Deduction As Well As Israeli Tax Deduction

Investigation by Israeli Channel 10 reveals that convicted Jewish terrorists and their families are receiving tax deductible charitable funds which it claims to raise by telephone, ostensibly in Israel. Fundraising of this type in Israel would yield slim pickings, but a...

Aug 8, 2015, 1:59 PM

Jewish Majority Shift To Muslim State Foreseen By Avi Issacharoff Has Demographic Flavor of California

Avi Issacharoff's Op-Ed: It’s time to say it out loud: The Israeli right has won — a temporary, pyrrhic victory that has set Israel on the path to becoming a Muslim-majority state "The watershed line seems to have been crossed....

Sep 27, 2013, 11:41 PM

Israelis lumped with other Mideast U.S. visa seekers this congressional session

This U.S. legislative season seems to be mired down around the issues of holding the U.S. health legislation commonly known as Obamacare hostage. Proposed U.S House and Senate legislation to include Israel in a visa program which enables entry...

Sep 18, 2013, 10:42 PM

Wasted tzedakah, wasted food and increased hunger in US and Israel

In Los Angeles, almost all the chickens used in the pre-Yom Kippur kaparot ritual that were supposed to go poor Jews in this U.S. city were discovered to be going directly from the ceremonies to landfill. From other evidence,...

Jun 2, 2013, 10:42 PM

4th Current Jewish Mayor of a Major US City Asserts Himself

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago all have Jewish mayors now but the new Jewish mayor of the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California, San Diego may be as interesting as Rahm Emanuel who...

May 30, 2013, 11:05 PM

Intermarried Significantly Less than Half of Jews in U.S. and Canada

Less than half of Jews who marry in the U.S. and Canada are in interfaith marriages. The rate of intermarriage is currently closer to less than a third and surely was less than a third when Jewish intermarriage hysteria...

May 27, 2013, 10:13 PM

A 3-state solution for the Haredi draft

Ovadia Yosef recently threatened that ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students may have to emigrate from Israel in order to avoid military service. Actually, this process may be in full force now if one considers areas past the 1967 Green Line as...

May 23, 2013, 11:21 PM

Los Angeles’ Jewish Electoral Sweep

Los Angeles, the second largest city in the U.S., now has elected a Jewish mayor. Eric Garcetti is the third person of Jewish ancestry who will hold the chief executive office in Los Angeles since 1850. This election saw the...

May 20, 2013, 9:16 PM

U.S. Visa Waiver For Israel Would Prevent Outrageous Discrimination by U.S. Diplomats in Tel Aviv

Every year over 300,000 Israelis visit the U.S. and they all have to obtain a visa through the U.S. Embassy located in Tel Aviv which processes over 1,500 visitor visas each workday. Each workday also sees the rejection of...

May 18, 2013, 12:32 AM

Israeli Tourist and Business Travel to U.S. More Onerous Than It Should Be

The U.S. sent 610,000 US tourists to visit Israel in 2012 and ranked as the top sending country to Israel. Israel, in turn, was ranked as fifteenth as a sending country to the U.S. 303,000 Israeli tourists entered the...

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About Me

Pini Herman, PhD, is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research based in Los Angeles; He specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis; He has been affiliated with the University of Southern California Dept.of Geography, the USC School of Social Work, and served seven years as Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.