Moving & Shaking: Haim and Cheryl Saban donate $5 million to FIDF; Jewish Community Day at Dodger Stadium
Ryan Torok
August 16, 2017
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friends of the israel defense forces
Moving and Shaking: FIDF gala, Mike Burstyn honored, David Suissa named Humanitarian of the Year
Ryan Torok
November 10, 2016
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala on Nov. 4 raised a record $38 million from supporters such as GUESS founders Maurice and Paul Marciano, who donated $5 million, and Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who donated $6 million.
More attorneys’ fees ordered in Hotel Shangri-La case
Aron Chilewich
August 5, 2015
The Hotel Shangri-La and one of its owners must pay a total of more than $400,000 in additional fees to the attorneys for a group of young Jews the hotel illegally discriminated against in 2010, a trial judge ruled on July 28.
Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity Media CEO, donates to four pro-Israel organizations
Ryan Torok
September 3, 2014
Ryan Kavanaugh, the 39-year-old CEO and founder of Relativity Media, is, to borrow the cliché, putting his money where his mouth is.
Moving and shaking
Ryan Torok
August 27, 2014
Dikla Kadosh has been appointed to the top leadership position of the Los Angeles chapter of the Israeli-American Council (IAC). Effective Aug. 25, Kadosh will succeed the IAC’s new national CEO, Sagi Balasha, as the L.A. regional director.
L.A.’s Iranian Jews stand with Israel during war
Karmel Melamed
August 13, 2014
During the war between Israel and Hamas, local Iranian Jews have taken a two-pronged approach to supporting the Jewish state: raising substantial dollars on behalf of humanitarian causes in Israel and speaking out on Farsi-language media outlets based in Southern California.
Protesters arrested after ‘die-in’ at Friends of IDF office [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
July 22, 2014
Nine protesters against Israel’s Gaza operation were arrested inside the Manhattan offices of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Protesters arrested after ‘die-in’ at Friends of IDF office
Jewish Journal
July 22, 2014
Nine protesters against Israel’s Gaza operation were arrested inside the Manhattan offices of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Young friends of the IDF
Jewish Journal
October 30, 2013
As the black SUVs pulled up to the Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy on West Olympic Boulevard in Beverly Hills, a star-struck reception began. More than 500 students waved miniature Israeli flags and sang “Hevenu Shalom Aleichem.”
A Jew and a Muslim? L.A.-based NewGround wants to show we can all get along
Jonah Lowenfeld
July 31, 2013
Most Jews and Muslims rarely talk — really talk — to one another. This is as true in the United States as elsewhere, a stark reality despite our nation’s vast diversity and the ability of so many different peoples to coexist. It is true also in Los Angeles, a city of strong ethnic identities, long drives and even longer cultural memories.
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