Boyle Heights’ Jewish history celebrated with exhibition in the neighborhood
Eitan Arom
June 14, 2017
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los angeles history
19th-Century Berlin Torah restored at B’nai David-Judea
Louis Keene
November 3, 2016
V’zot haTorah — the scroll was hoisted into the air, pinky fingers stretched toward the split-column poetry of Parshat Ha’azinu, and one of the Los Angeles Jewish community’s original sifrei Torah testified to the words of God and Moses for the first time in more than a decade.
‘Blueprint for Paradise’: A Nazi incursion in California
Iris Mann
August 11, 2016
Few people may be aware that, during the weeks just before the United States’ entry into World War II, a Nazi compound intended as a training center and base of operations, under the assumption that Germany would be victorious and Adolf Hitler would come to rule the Western U.S., was under construction in Rustic Canyon.
Yamashiro: The mountain palace built by Jews
Jewish Journal
July 6, 2016
Yamashiro, the famous Hollywood restaurant with a Japanese-style building and name, served its last meal by its longtime owners recently, before changing hands and reopening under a new operator.
Also straight outta: The story of Compton’s Jewish community
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2016
When hip-hop group N.W.A released its debut album “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988, the rappers were probably clueless that the title also could apply to a small, short-lived group of postwar Jews from the same city.
From debutantes to Yom Kippur queens — early Jewish club life
Jewish Journal
February 11, 2016
On Valentine’s Day some 100 years ago, if you wanted to meet someone Jewish to date in Los Angeles, what would you do?
A filmmaker with an eye for Wilshire Boulevard Synagogue’s transformation
Avishay Artsy
January 27, 2016
Los Angeles filmmaker Aaron Wolf never intended to make a documentary about a synagogue.
The ‘Little Fuehrer’ vs. student furor in Boyle Heights
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2015
While commentators denounce and rebut Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, some will remember that 70 years ago, another battle against bigotry, as well as anti-Semitism and what the media called “fascism,” was waged by Jewish and Black teenagers on the streets of Los Angeles.
Framing L.A.: The Jews who helped us to picture art
Jewish Journal
March 18, 2015
In the post-World War II years, Jewish businessmen figured out how to price and frame art so that almost anyone who wanted it would be able to afford it.
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