The emerging Latino-Jewish bloc

"Most of the remaining white Democrats who hold public office [in Los Angeles] are Jews. As Latinos seek to improve their position, by the laws of probability, it'll come at Jewish expense," Zev Yaroslavsky says in explaining a major dynamic in Los Angeles politics. Like the black-Jewish coalition that kept Tom Bradley in the mayor's office for so long, Tony Castro writes in the L.A. Independent that alliances between Jews and Latinos -- as seen in the Villaraigosa campaign two years ago -- are a coming thing.