LOS ANGELES — It was billed as a broad coming together of two of Los Angeles’s most important ethnic communities. But percolating underneath the closed-door sessions and the concluding public declarations of common cause on such issues as immigration, racism and anti-Semitism at a recent “summit” between local Jewish and Latino groups was a more immediate issue: the city’s upcoming mayoral race.

Surging demographics and rising expectations have given Latinos a greater political role than ever before in national and local politics. And that reality is both uniquely promising and in some ways politically problematic for L.A.’s Jewish community.

The September 22 conference at the University of California, Los Angeles between leaders of L.A.’s organized Jewish and Latino communities was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Council of La Raza and the New America Alliance. In terms of timing, the get-together reflected the early stirrings of “our post-first-Latino mayoral era,” as one conference organizer, David Ayon, senior fellow at the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, put it.


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"spain colonized you. with your help, we'll colonize spain." - muslim flyer to latinos