Three seminaries — American Jewish University (AJU), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and the Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR-CA) were among the local schools holding commencement ceremonies last month.
An audience of 900 at the opening-night gala of the 11th annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) was treated to the North American premiere of the Israeli TV show “False Flag” (Kfulim), followed by a discussion with Amit Cohen, the co-creator of the series, and actors in the show, Angel Bonanni and Ania Bukstein (“Game of Thrones”).
Yale historian Timothy Snyder, author of the 2015 book “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning,” discussed the causes of the Holocaust on March 21 at Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus.
The May 11 Yom HaAtzmaut reception held by Israel’s consulate in Los Angeles took on a bittersweet air — not just because it followed Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day, but also because it was a de facto goodbye party for Consul General David Siegel.
The Israeli American Council’s (IAC) Celebrate Israel festival drew more than 15,000 attendees of all ages and backgrounds to Cheviot Hills Recreation Center on May 15, making it the largest Jewish festival in North America, according to organizers.
Edward and Elissa Czuker, co-chairs of an upcoming gala hosted by the American Society for Yad Vashem (ASYV), hosted a kickoff reception March 28 at their Beverly Hills home.
The seventh annual OUR HOUSE Run for Hope at the West Los Angeles Civic Center included a tribute led by Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin to the late L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who died in March of cancer.
The April 12 World of Children 2016 Alumni Honors ceremony took place at the Montage Beverly Hills.
Uri Herscher, president and founder of the Skirball Cultural Center, received the Outstanding American By Choice award on April 5 at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C., from Leon Rodriguez, director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Alejandro N. Mayorkas, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
