JFS Hosts Elderly Resource Fair, Honors Volunteer
For the first time, Jewish Family Service (JFS) and Westside M.A.P.S. (Marketing and Admissions Professionals for Seniors) teamed up to sponsor a resource fair for the elderly.
For the first time, Jewish Family Service (JFS) and Westside M.A.P.S. (Marketing and Admissions Professionals for Seniors) teamed up to sponsor a resource fair for the elderly.
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) may not be the biggest or best-known Jewish philanthropy in the United States, but on the Israeli creative arts scene it is one of the most influential players.
Grammy-nominated artists attracted 800 music lovers to Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services’ first annual jazz festival.
Nooshin Meshkaty, Beverly Hills Board of Education president, and Beverly LeMay, program manager for the Museum of Tolerance’s Tools for Tolerance, are working together to expand character education for elementary and middle school students.
More than 25 Jewish organizations across the Valley participated in the 13th annual Mitzvah Day on Nov. 1, coordinated by The Jewish Federation Valley Alliance.
The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies recently honored founding director Arnold Band, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature, for his half-century of service to UCLA. Raymond P. Scheindlin, professor of medieval Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, delivered the annual lecture named for Band and sponsored by Sheila and Milton Hyman on Oct. 21.
The stars aligned for Camp Kesem’s “Fore” the Children Golf Tournament on Nov. 2, attracting the likes of Marcia Cross and Peter Gallagher to the MountainGate Country Club for the inaugural event.
Following a similar event organized last year in New York, the Western Region of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces honored local families of fallen Israeli soldiers at a formal dinner held at the Olympic Collection on Oct. 29. The event was meant to extend recognition and support that bereaved families might often miss living outside of Israel.
When the Israeli electro-rock-pop band Terry Poison strutted onto the stage at the Hollywood Playhouse as the headliner act of the after-party for Israel’s debut at LA Fashion week on Oct. 14, most audience members — largely Israeli ex-pats — got up to dance, though some stayed behind to scratch their heads. The band wore metallic spandex bodysuits and wild makeup and played synth-based instruments to songs with English lyrics that sometimes sounded like an esoteric robotic language. It was a performance that could easily have been taken for an avant-garde art installation.
A diverse group of do-gooders, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israel’s “disco rabbi,” Yitzhak Dovid Grossman, were among those honored on Oct. 13 by the Caring Institute, the Mother Teresa-inspired nonprofit, which promotes the values of caring, integrity and large-scale public service.