About 600 supporters of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) attended its annual fundraiser Nov. 6 at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, which honored deceased Holocaust survivor Jona Goldrich and film producer Gary Foster for his film “Denial.”
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala on Nov. 4 raised a record $38 million from supporters such as GUESS founders Maurice and Paul Marciano, who donated $5 million, and Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who donated $6 million.
At its Board of Governors Gala at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Oct. 20, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was celebrated as much more than just a hospital for celebrities and Jews.
Nearly 200 Hollywood leaders and Jewish community members gathered at the Skirball Cultural Center on Oct. 13 for a special screening of the first episode of “Prisoners of War” (“Hatufim” in Hebrew), the critically acclaimed Israeli television series that served as inspiration for the Showtime hit “Homeland.”
“Brunch and Family Day” at Universal Studios in Hollywood on Oct. 9 raised $220,000 for the Foundation for Camp Bob Waldorf, which supports the Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles (JBBBSLA) nondenominational, residential summer camp for underserved children.
About 400 people at Stephen Wise Temple in Bel Air attended an Oct. 6 memorial service for former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, who died Sept. 28 at age 93.
On Sept. 13, Israel Cancer Research Fund’s (ICRF) Rachel’s Society, which focuses on women’s cancer awareness and research, held an event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills that raised more than $62,000 toward cancer research.
On the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the plane crash in western Pennsylvania, Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles Sam Grundwerg visited Beverly Hills to present the city’s fire chief, Ralph Mundell, and police chief, Sandra Spagnoli, with a framed photograph of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) 9/11 Living Memorial in Jerusalem.
If the doctorate couldn’t go to the university, the university would come to the doctorate.
Wearing a yarmulke, tzitzit and a Sandy Koufax jersey, Rabbi Jason Weiner, senior rabbi and manager of the spiritual care department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, threw the ceremonial first pitch during Jewish Community Day at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28 to Joc Pederson, a Jewish team member of the Dodgers.
