It has a gym. It has a teen center. And with Sunday\’s well-covered dedication, the new $4.5 million state-of-the-art Ferne Milken Youth & Sports Complex — an addition to the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills — now has a lot of visibility.\n\n
Perhaps his choice of reading material best sums up Todd Morgan\’s worldview.
Visitors to the Museum of Tolerance expect to encounter evidence of brutality and organized evil. The current third floor exhibit, built around a reconstruction of a slave factory with barbed wire, and featuring video testimonials from survivors, seems predictable enough.
Yet the events documented didn\’t happen in Eastern Europe during the 1940s. The victims were rescued by government authorities, and the illegal garment factory imprisoning 73 Thai workers was located in El Monte, California in the early 1990s.
The Skirball Cultural Center will dedicate its expanded and redesigned galleries on Sunday (Dec. 5) during an all-day Chanukah family festival.
Breitburn has submitted an application to the city zoning board for an expansion. The public will have a chance to air their thoughts and learn more about the project at a hearing before the zoning administrator on Thurs., Dec. 2 at 4 pm at the Holiday Inn Select, 1150 South Beverly Dr.
Jewish Expo 2000 — an 8,000 square foot traveling museum of Jewish history and culture — arrives at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills following a successful world tour, including its latest stop in Sydney, Australia.
The UJC, formed through the merger of the Council of Jewish Federations and the United Jewish Appeal, became legal Nov. 17, according to papers filed with New York State.
Simi Valley offered the most appealing, yet affordable horse property within driving distance of downtown. Though during rush hour, that distance hardly seems driveable. At the time of our move, I dismissed my mother\’s concerns about Simi\’s rumored lack of Jewish community.
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