The 16 seniors profiled in these pages are inspiring examples of how to stay active and engaged as we age. When putting this issue together, we received an overwhelming response from the community. Unfortunately, we could not feature everyone, but those selected reflect a wide cross section of our amazing Jewish senior citizens in Los Angeles. — Ryan Torok
Click on the links below to read about our 16 amazing Jewish senior citizens:
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
Arab citizens are an integral part of Israeli society. They serve as physicians, nurses, lawyers, engineers, pharmacists, entrepreneurs, professors and judges.
“The Floaters” opens at Laemmle locations in West L.A. and Encino on July 17.
The man behind the 1994 FIFA World Cup is chairing The Beautiful Game: The Untold Story as the Holocaust Museum L.A.’s Goldrich Cultural Center prepares to open in mid-August.
Through The Equalizer (Sha’ar Shivion), children from Jewish, Arab, Druze, Bedouin, religious and secular communities meet through soccer – not only to compete, but also to build friendships and break down barriers that often keep their communities apart.
It’s important to the owners, Lenny and Adaeze Rosenberg – and the neighborhood – to stay true to its longtime recipes.
A symbol of hospitality, families bake batches for holidays, family celebrations and visits with friends and relatives.
UCLA has an opportunity to become a national model for confronting antisemitism through principled leadership, transparent accountability, and meaningful action.
I can imagine many Israelis rolling their eyes: OK, where’s he going with this? When is he telling us what he really came here to say?
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, can’t stop speaking about her pain and the public love her body cannot always receive. She talks to the Journal about her son’s legacy and her new book.
An Open Letter to My Fellow Jews on Peoplehood, Memory and Israel
This week’s “Constitutional Crisis” is typical of the way the government operates. It issues a statement, or a tweet and then walks it back. Oops, we did not mean it. Or rather, we did, but we also meant to deny that we did.
Moral consistency is not a Republican value or a Democratic value. It is an American value.
If we want to see a less polarized society, both internally and beyond, we must emphatically reject the idea that political alignment is the predominant commonality for friendship.
Jews spoke in two voices about Ruth, a kind of national schizophrenia, one with joyous chanting on Shavuos as the Book of Ruth was read; the other, removing her name from the chain-link of repeated names throughout the generations.
Saying kaddish every day tested my faith and commitment. It made me realize that there is no room for excuses. It taught me how to show up. It taught me that my voice can be heard, even when not expected.
A manufacturer of olives, pasta and tomato sauce, agreed to give my grandfather a job.
