Unemployment hit a 30-year low in April and the economy is, if not booming, at least bouncing. So why is it that so many synagogues, even in wealthy areas, are struggling? Perhaps it is because members fail to understand that dues only go so far, according to Sylvia Moskovitz, executive director at Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills.
\”The goal of the Center is to have unity,\” Shahla Farivar says in her warm Iranian accent. \”The main point is to get the Iranian young people, who were born and raised here, integrated back into the Jewish community.\”
Last week the two giants of Jewish activism took the bimah at B\’nai David-Judea to look into the Jewish future, to decipher how to strengthen and expand the Jewish community.
The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism (UJ) ordained 12 candidates at Sinai Temple on May 16, its second class of rabbis.
Long before the term \”politically incorrect\” graced the vernacular, sardonic singer-songwriter Randy Newman elicited considerable anger for songs that satirized sadists, lechers, liars and bigots.
Memorial Day weekend will be especially poignant for Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, a congregation with a tradition of honoring war veterans and members of the Jewish War Veterans (Department of California).
Rabbi Bernie King watched the rioting sparked by the Rodney King verdict, but what he saw was gam zo l\’tovah, the Jewish notion that also, this is for good.
Morasha Jewish Day School, currently located in Aliso Viejo, is finalizing the purchase of a new 4.3-acre site in Rancho Santa Margarita, about 12 miles east of the school\’s current location.
It\’s a clear, sunny weekday in May. A man wearing a hardhat shaped like a Stetson materializes from a construction site. His name is Rodney Freeman, and he is a member of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles\’ Real Estate & Construction Division. He is also on the committee supervising the biggest enterprise ever undertaken by L.A.\’s Jewish Federation – the refurbishing of the nonprofit organization\’s 6505 Wilshire Blvd. headquarters.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin explains the role of the toenet, or female advocate, in religious divorce trials at a fundraiser held May 14 in Beverly Hills
Hollywood met Jerusalem this Mother\’s Day, when the tennis court at the north Beverly Hills home of bestselling authors Jonathan and Faye Kellerman was transformed into a Tel Aviv rabbinic court hearing the ugly details of a divorce gone awry.
