Skirball Cultural Center

This was the LA Jewish Mayoral Forum.

Here tonight at Skirball in front of hundreds, this was not a debate, it was a forum.

Both candidates took the stage separately and answered basically the same set of questions.

The very first one, and perhaps the most important, is how will they sway undecided voters who will likely decide the election outcome?

The comic section is, was amazing, but I kept thinking, oh, I thought I would see more.

And I only say that because they had a Kirby exhibit up at the Skirball this summer, and that was just outrageously phenomenal.

So it would...

Still, you see amazing art, but...

We do still have a Marvel exhibition that is touring, and we hope to have a U.S. date announced for it in the very near future.

I have an exhibition that is currently on display at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

It's called Inventing America, the Comic Book Revolution, and it's sort of a cultural history of the 20th century using comic books as the lens to show changes in society and culture over time and how comics have reflected that.

But that was, sad to say, the last engagement for the Spider-Man exhibition.

The Mamdani administration has already filed to appeal the ruling.

Our final local story of the week takes us to Los Angeles, where mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman is in the news this week for sticking to her guns and defending her use of the term genocide to describe Israel's murderous campaign in Gaza during a Jewish Federation forum at the Skirball Cultural Center.

The LA Times reports Rahman was questioned about her relationship with DSA, as well as with streamer Hassan Piker, recently described by the Financial Times as the Republican Party's bogeyman, and finally about her use of the term genocide, which moderator Alex Cohen called a highly inflammatory term.

Rahman reportedly said that she deferred to international experts, including within Israel, adding that she used it because she felt compelled to speak out about the targeting of hospitals, the deaths of children.

It's an audio production.

It was recorded in May 2009 before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

We all know it well.

It's as famous as the Big Finish car park.

They did not appear on stage together.

They were interviewed separately at the Skirball Center.

You know, they call these things a debate, but it's not.

And all the headlines today, well, I mean, it was a Jewish organization that put on the debate, and the crowd was...

It's a difficult world.

All right, we've got more here.

Nithya Raman and Mayor Bass, they appeared at a forum, Skirball Center for the Jewish Federation, and we've been playing Raman clips first.

Okay, here's one more Raman clip.

But the new poll revealed one-third of voters are still undecided and it's those voters that both candidates are hoping to win over.

Last night, hundreds of Jewish voters packed the Skirball Cultural Center asking how each candidate would handle anti-Semitism and the impacts here at home from the war in Gaza.

There was also a big push for answers on how each candidate would tackle the ongoing homelessness problem across Los Angeles.

Let's make sure that we're targeting those resources that can actually get people off the streets for good, not just moving them from one sidewalk to another.

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Mark Thompson, you are doing a charity

event over the weekend?

I'm doing furball at the Skirball.

I'm emceeing.

I just love, too, that after they got scurrballed,

It's Skirball, right?

Skirball.

Skirball.

Skirball is the art

center.

Skirball is the art center.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.