Los Angeles City Hall held its first-ever Passover celebration, which was organized by the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug has been named executive director of Jewish World Watch (JWW).
In just three weeks, more than 3,000 leaders of the international Jewish community, including the prime minister of Israel, are coming to Los Angeles. This season\’s best-kept secret among L.A. Jews seems to be that the 75th annual General Assembly (GA) of the United Jewish Communities is being held in Los Angeles — the first time in 26 years this city will host one of the largest annual gatherings of Jews in North America.
The attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas represent nothing less than the latest step in radical Islam\’s quest for world domination, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Standing up to the threat, whether on the frontlines of Israel or the streets of Los Angeles, is a needed challenge to the forces of darkness.
Tonight is a Yiddish service, Zol Zahn Shabbes — literally, we should have Shabbat — and it\’s happening at Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), founded in 1972 as the world\’s first synagogue for lesbian and gay Jews.
The role of a Jewish newspaper is to connect the Jewish community, not to unify it,\” said Gene Lichtenstein, founding editor of The Journal.\nDuring his nearly 15-year tenure, which ended in 2000, Lichtenstein\’s formula was to hire good, independent writers and columnists who could produce articles that raised the interest, and frequently the hackles, of both professional and peripheral Jews.
The local Jewish community, unlike those in other cities, neither supported most existing centers nor clamored for the types of state-of-the-art facilities that have proven so successful elsewhere, he added.
Critics say that starting in the mid-1990s, the JCRC slowly began losing its voice and shirked a core mission: to be as visible and forthrightly active as possible.
\”The Federation improved our lives,\” said Khananashvili, now a 48-year-old social worker and Beverly Hills resident. \”They gave us our start here and protected us under their shield. We\’re very grateful.\”
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