Rebecca Diamond: Chanting the Entire Torah
June 15, 2023
The 62-year-old Diamond’s ambition to chant the entire Torah dates back 40 years, when she recited kaddish for her father at a woman’s minyan in Stony Brook, New York.
Ari L. Noonan
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi David Vorspan: The Rabbi Who Never Will Quit
June 8, 2023
The 76-year-old Vorspan is still leading services at Congregation Shir Ami, the Conservative shul he founded in 2007.
Survivor and Iron Dome Inventor Are Saluted by Yeshiva U.
June 8, 2023
Yeshiva University honored Brig. Gen (Ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold and Holocaust survivor Emil Fish, two outstanding citizens of the world, at its 92nd annual commencement ceremony at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Sari Laufer: Meet a Feminist Rabbi
June 1, 2023
For Sari Laufer of Stephen Wise Temple, being a rabbi and a feminist came as naturally to her as breathing.
Rewarding Ukraine Family Who Once Saved Two Jews
May 25, 2023
Ancestors of Ukrainian Righteous Gentiles Who Saved Jews From Nazis Are Saved From the War by Los Angeles Congregations
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Refael Cohen: A World Traveler Settles in L.A.
May 25, 2023
When Rabbi Refael Cohen first saw Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, he felt a kinship with the over 100-year-old congregation.
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Zöe Klein Miles: A Writer Leading the ‘People of the Book’
May 18, 2023
Mixing literature and her Judaism is something that came naturally to Rabbi Klein Miles.
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Alexander’s Return to Adat Ari El
May 11, 2023
Contrary to a popular belief, sometimes you can go home again.
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Amy Bernstein: The Returning Reconstructionist
May 4, 2023
The rabbi’s podcasts, available on the Kehillat Israel website, have been downloaded over 250,000 times.
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Zargari’s School ‘Is My Eighth Child’
April 27, 2023
After nearly four decades of milestone accomplishments for Persian Jews in Los Angeles, Rabbi David Zargari is focused on his next two goals.
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