Join a special Shabbat in the Sukkah! Everyone will enjoy a service followed by a taco bar dinner. Limited to the first 75 people to register. Intended for young Jewish professionals, ages 21 to 39. 7 p.m. service; 8 p.m. dinner. $15. Sinai Temple, 10400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 474-1518. atidla.com.
“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.
Take a tour of the spectacular third home of the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, founded in 1862 as Congregation B’nai B’rith.
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.
Roy Lichtenstein was renowned for his inventive interplay of lines, dots and color, shaping a new form of fine art.
Award-winning author Maggie Anton has a new book called “Fifty Shades of Talmud: What the First Rabbis Had to Say About You-Know-What.”
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.
Andrea Mezvinsky, named “America’s Funniest Mom” on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” is a stand-up comedian and actress whose new solo play, “Sawed in Half,” asks the question: What happens when one woman’s competing roles of wife, mother, lover and performer collide?
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