Weaving together the threads of music, youth activities and social action, the eighth annual Valley Jewish Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 6. This year\’s festival, which organizers call the largest event of its kind on the West Coast, finds a new home on the campus of Cal State Northridge.
Call it the \”Phantom Menace\” of singles events. Since its debut one year ago, Sinai Temple\’s \”Friday Night Live\” programming has evolved into a 2,000-pound gorilla not to be trifled with.
Over at Temple Ramat Zion in Northridge, they\’ve planted a small garden. It\’s just a few flowers now . Adjacent is a patio that will one day hold benches, a place where Hebrew-school students can come study or where people can take a break from services and sit in the sun.
From its beginnings in a storefront office behinda pizza shop in Encino, Chabad of the Valley has expanded into amultimillion-dollar operation with nine Chabad houses and 75 rabbisand staff members.
It turns out that there are more Jews in the South Bay than many had imagined — about 45,000, according to a just-released population study by the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles.
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