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Jul 2, 2013 · On May 22, 2013, the day after Los Angeles voters elected Eric Garcetti mayor of Los Angeles, something astonishing happened: He became Jewish. No, he didn’t suddenly convert. Garcetti never hid that he contained multitudes.
May 28, 2020 · Eric Garcetti has been praying more than usual lately. The 49-year-old Democratic mayor of Los Angeles — who now takes part in a bi-weekly prayer session with local religious leaders — currently finds himself knee-deep in the most consequential moment of his political career as he works to confront the coronavirus pandemic, which has ...
His mother descended from Russian Jews who immigrated to the United States; his father’s family were Italian Catholics who moved to Mexico to escape 19th century turmoil and then fled to the U.S. during Mexico’s revolution. Garcetti was raised in Encino, California.
Garcetti's maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. His maternal grandfather, Harry Roth, founded and ran the clothing brand Louis Roth Clothes. Garcetti's family celebrated Passover and Chanukah, and he attended a Jewish camp.
Jul 1, 2013 · On May 22, 2013, the day after Los Angeles voters elected him mayor of Los Angeles, something astonishing happened to Eric Garcetti: He became Jewish. No, he didn’t suddenly convert.
Jun 8, 2020 · But the Garcetti Catholicism and the Roth Judaism fought to a standstill in Eric’s mind when he began considering a formal religion. He ended up neither baptized nor bar mitzvahed.
Feb 2, 2013 · Eric Garcetti’s father, Gil (the former district attorney) is of Mexican and Italian descent and his mother is Jewish. That makes Eric Jewish according to halacha (Jewish religious law). In a Jewish Journal interview with Bill Boyarsky last year (December 19, 2012), Garcetti reflected on his Jewish background and current identity.
