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Mayor Carries Torah to <br>Vandalized Tarzana Synagogue

Adam Wills July 9, 2006

On Sunday, in the intense heat of a mid-summer day, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, carried a Sephardic Torah for one-half mile along city streets in Tarzana to a new Persian synagogue that had been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack just two days earlier. Police are still investigating the arson attempt, which burned a rear door of Beith David Education Center on Clark Street, as well as anti-Jewish graffiti left at the scene, as a hate crime.

Them and Us

Rob Eshman June 1, 2006

At 81, frail of body but sharp-tongued and wise, Rabbi Schulweis has made it his mission to preach the gospel of conversion to the Jews. That is we, as individuals and as a people, must seek and embrace converts. Doing so will not only improve Jewish life but improve our own lives as Jews.

This Week – In and Out

Rob Eshman May 25, 2006

Last Friday, when the sun went down in Los Angeles, the Jewish community came alive.

Jewish Studies Bug Bites Parents, Too

Sue Fishkoff May 18, 2006

Eighteen months ago, when Lenard Cohen\’s 4-year-old daughter was enrolled in the family\’s congregational preschool, the Philadelphia-area father of three decided to go back to school himself.

New JTS Head Faces Trouble, Opportunity

Joe Eskenazi April 27, 2006

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) announced this month that Eisen, 54, the chair of Stanford University\’s religious studies program, would become just the second nonrabbi to serve as the New York City seminary\’s chancellor and the first since 1940. He succeeds Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, who held the post for two decades.

Celebrating a Shpiel-Good Holiday

Jane Ulman March 9, 2006

Reading the Megillah in esoteric tongues is part of the Purim fun at this Los Angeles synagogue, and congregant Maggie Anton Parkhurst has chosen this infinitely tongue-tying imaginary language of the Trekkies to make her bid at hilarity.

Car Crash Claims Beloved Northridge Rabbi

Marc Ballon November 17, 2005

The beloved rabbi of a Northridge synagogue apparently committed suicide in the wake of personal disclosures that jeopardized his job. These disclosures had to do with allegedly \”inappropriate\” actions by the rabbi, but nothing that was criminal or illegal, said officials of Temple Ramat Zion.

Is There Room For Politics in Shul?

Idan Ivri August 26, 2004

Eight years ago, when President Bill Clinton was running for a second term, he sent out letters to L.A. synagogues wishing them a happy Rosh Hashanah with a spiritual message for Yom Kippur.

\”I liked what the letter had to say for Yom Kippur, so I read it at the opening to a sermon that I gave,\” said Rabbi Daniel Bouskila of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel. \”At the end of the night one of the members came up and said, \’Why\’d you read a letter from a Democrat? I\’m a Republican.\’\”

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