Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Zach Shapiro: Welcoming Jews With Open Arms
What matters most to Shapiro is that when people come to Temple Akiba, they feel at home.
What matters most to Shapiro is that when people come to Temple Akiba, they feel at home.
“The Los Angeles Jewish Home name served us well for more than 100 years, but it doesn’t describe what we do now as an organization,” Andrew Berman, chair of the board of directors, told the Journal.
Rabbi Mari Chernow, the senior rabbi of Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH), sums up her job in one word: Relationships.
Now everybody can enjoy kosher ice cream on-the-go, thanks to La Creme Dairy’s kosher ice cream truck, which serves Cholov Yisroel ice cream in La Brea, Pico-Robertson and the Valley.
The L.A. Federation worked with the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, a group of Jewish and Jewish-supporting elected officials in the California legislature, to secure $40 million for rebuilding six California summer camps affected by devastating wildfires in recent years.
Today, she has 10.6 million followers on TikTok and 1.7 million on Instagram.
While Kligfeld, the senior rabbi at Temple Beth Am (TBA) in Los Angeles, cherishes the Jewish tradition, he is open to new and innovative ways for people to connect to the sacred.
In a program titled “Granddaughters of the Holocaust,” the Holocaust Museum LA invited Dr. Franziska Frank to share and contrast her experiences with Museum CEO Beth Kean about growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust.
Director Steven Spielberg established the archive nearly 30 years ago as part of an effort to videotape and preserve interviews with Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses.