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skid row
Rabbi finds a higher calling in L.A.’s homeless population
Bill Boyarsky
September 24, 2015
Rabbi Marvin Gross’ congregants include Los Angeles County’s poorest, most neglected and most scorned — the homeless.
Clergy march to LAPD headquarters, City Hall to protest skid row killing
Ryan Torok
April 9, 2015
On April 8, group of local Jewish and African-American leaders spotlighted the increase in police-involved deadly shootings in areas such as Skid Row during a press conference outside the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) headquarters.
Dave Bullock: Bringing cameras to Skid Row residents
Ryan Torok
January 6, 2015
Dave Bullock is a co-founder of the Skid Row Photography Club, which provides digital cameras to Los Angeles’ Skid Row residents — the club’s members — and through their pictures allows outsiders like himself a chance to see their lives in another light.
Helping the poor on Purim
Ryan Torok
March 19, 2014
It was Purim, and the people of Skid Row were rushing Shari and Maya Rosenman’s minivan at Seventh Street and Gladys Avenue.
Rebuilding lives, one broken tile at a time
Jane Ulman
November 19, 2008
It was an elegant opening for a gallery exhibition. It was difficult to discern, on the surface, that the artists represented some of Los Angeles\’ most impoverished citizens, residents of Skid Row and South Los Angeles, who are actually using the broken bits of tile, stone and other rejected and recycled materials to rebuild their own lives.
Sukkot on the streets — finding community amid temporary shelter
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2008
Every night on Skid Row, 5,000 people pile onto shelter cots or erect their flimsy huts in the concrete desert of the city. Another 9,000 go to bed in the area\’s residency hotels, hoping to still have a roof over their heads the next day. In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, year-round they share their sukkot with each other and remind us that we have failed to do the same for them.
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