Moving and Shaking: Celebrate Israel Festival
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2015
Festival goers enjoy a wide variety of attractions — including rides, food and entertainment — at the Celebrate Israel Festival.
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Movers & Shakers
Moving and Shaking: Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, David Myers and Richard Sandler
Ryan Torok
May 21, 2015
A red carpet ceremony and a screening of “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” kicked off the 10th annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) on April 30 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Moving and Shaking: Amos Oz, Ari Shavit, Natalie Portman and Cantor Yonah Kliger
Ryan Torok
May 14, 2015
“I love Israel even at moments I cannot stand it.”
Moving and Shaking: Temple Israel of Hollywood Cantor, Great Minds Gala, and Mimouna celebration
Ryan Torok
April 23, 2015
Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) has announced that cantor and music director Danny Maseng will be leaving the congregation this summer.
Moving and Shaking: AFHU award dinner, TRZ Yom HaShoah event and fire safety at B’nai David-Judea
Ryan Torok
April 17, 2015
American Friends of The Hebrew University’s (AFHU) Harvey L. Silbert Torch of Learning Award Dinner on April 13 honored attorneys Jonathan Anschell and Dick Volpert while raising more than $1 million to support the prominent Israeli university.
Moving and shaking: Pioneer Women Award, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and more
Ryan Torok
April 9, 2015
The Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women honored Molly Forrest, CEO and president of the Los Angeles Jewish Home, with the Pioneer Women Award during a ceremony March 27 at Los Angeles City Hall.
Moving and Shaking: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Harvey Weinstein, Rabbi David Wolpe and more
Ryan Torok
April 2, 2015
As the night’s master of ceremonies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance annual national tribute dinner, Jeffrey Katzenberg had two big jobs — to keep the presentations to heroes who’d risked their lives to save others moving along like clockwork and to convince the crowd that the night’s top honoree, Harvey Weinstein, is a good guy and a true humanitarian.
Moving and shaking: Combating hate, Friendship Circle and more
Ryan Torok
March 26, 2015
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) honored three individuals and two law enforcement groups at its annual Helene & Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate luncheon and award ceremony March 10 at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Moving and shaking: USHMM’s annual Los Angeles dinner, Sally Drucker turns 100 and more
Ryan Torok
March 18, 2015
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) annual Los Angeles dinner was themed “What You Do Matters.”
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