California Raisin Heir Charged in Antisemitic Threats Case

LA rabbi ‘elated’ raisin company heir arrested for antisemitic threat, frustrated ‘took a while'

The Los Angeles rabbi allegedly threatened by the heir to California’s second largest raisin company is glad that Bruce Lion was arrested on hate crime charges but told JNS that it took too long for him to be apprehended.“I’m so elated that this was shut down before it was too late,” Rabbi Zushe Cunin, executive director of the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Pacific Palisades in the Los Angeles area, told JNS. “I can’t say it wasn’t frustrati…

Raisin Company Heir Charged With Hate Crime After Alleged Antisemitic Threats Against Rabbi

A man being arrested, illustrative. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The heir to one of California’s largest raisin companies is facing three felony hate crime charges for allegedly threatening to kill his neighbor, who is a rabbi, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday. On June 5, Bruce Lion, 64, allegedly stood on the balcony of his Pacific Palisades home and shouted antisemitic threats to his next-door neighbor, Rabb…

California raisin heir charged in antisemitic threats case

A California raisin company heir accused of making criminal threats against a rabbi neighbor is possibly facing more than nine years in prison after being charged with three felony hate crimes, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Heir to one of California's largest raisin companies charged with felony hate crimes for alleged threat to kill rabbi

The neighbor is reportedly Rabbi Zushe Cunin, of Chabad of Pacific Palisades. By JNS Bruce Alfred Lion, 64, heir to one of the largest raisin companies in California, was charged with three felony hate crimes for allegedly threatening to kill a rabbi, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said on Thursday. At about 8 p.m. on June 5, Lion allegedly stood on the balcony of his Pacific Palisades home and yelled antisemitic threats at hi…

Jewish residents in Palisades say neighbor terrorized them; member of Lion Raisins family arrested

After weeks of allegedly threatening his Jewish neighbors, Bruce Lion, of a major agricultural family in Fresno, was arrested Saturday morning.

Raisin Heir Faces Felony Hate Crime Charges Over Alleged Threats to Rabbi

PACIFIC PALISADES — A prayer service became the scene of an alleged hate crime earlier this month when a neighbor stood on his balcony and shouted antisemitic death threats at the rabbi leading the gathering, prosecutors said.