{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_m4kehzcnoxzdk7wc4xoq","title":"At L.A. Jewish community forum, Nithya Raman encounters tough questions on Israel — and a hostile audience","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/at-l-a-jewish-community-forum-nithya-raman-encounters-tough-questions-m4kehzcnox","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_m4kehzcnoxzdk7wc4xoq","seq":839629,"kind":"article","title":"At L.A. Jewish community forum, Nithya Raman encounters tough questions on Israel — and a hostile audience","url":"https://forward.com/news/852764/at-l-a-jewish-community-forum-nithya-raman-encounters-tough-questions-on-israel-and-a-hostile-audience","summary":"LOS ANGELES — Nithya Raman went into a Jewish community-hosted mayoral candidate forum Tuesday hoping to win over voters concerned about her stance on Israel and her membership in the Democratic Socialists of America. But Raman’s reiteration that the war in Gaza amounted to genocide produced waves of groans in the Skirball Cultural Center crowd before... The post At L.A. Jewish community forum, Nithya Raman encounters tough questions on Israel — and a hostile audience…","published":"2026-09-30T05:26:42Z","seen":"2026-09-30T06:37:57Z","lang":"en","country":"IL","source":{"id":"kite-forward-com-e9445f","name":"forward.com","domain":"forward.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q154301","name":"The Forward","type":"newspaper","designations":["jewish newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-forward-com-e9445f","topics":["news","democratic socialists of america","federation","genocide","karen bass","los angeles","nithya raman"],"authors":["Louis Keene"],"entities":[{"id":"Q100728314","name":"Nithya Raman","type":"person"}],"story":"st_m4kehzcnoxzdk7wc4xoq","category":"politics","category_p":0.41999998688697815,"category2":"arts-culture-entertainment","sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.2800000011920929,"political":0.75}]}