The Gaza War is painfully personal for The Shul, a Tarzana community of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews near the intersection of Ventura and Reseda Boulevards.
It will offer outdoor reflective spaces, large galleries and classrooms, a theater for survivor talks, film screenings, concerts, conferences and public programs and a new pavilion to house an authentic boxcar.
Since October 7th, the students and faculty at Milken Community School have seen the world change.
From the first stop at a center where parents and relatives of hostages were cared for, the importance of the rabbis’ presence was undeniable.
The rabbi said a central lesson from the trip was “Israel’s pain is our pain.”
Religious diversity of the student population notwithstanding, Rabbi Lev said a significant percentage of de Toledo’s faculty and students have family and friends in Israel.
“We are going to Israel to show support for our brothers and sisters,” the rabbi said. “We are going to visit the soldiers, the hospitals, we are going to visit people who are wounded. We are going to be with the survivors.”
The Valley-based Orthodox rabbi calls himself a relationship architect.
Before he became a rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple’s Senior Rabbi Ken Chasen had dreams of being a musician.
Every Thursday night at 10, Rabbi Silverstein has a gig at the Laugh Factory — less than 24 hours before leading Friday night and Shabbat services at the Orthodox synagogue in Studio City.
