Bringing together Jews from communities of all sizes throughout Europe — with Orthodox, Reform and secular representatives, and age groups ranging from students to senior citizens — the meeting was unprecedented in size, scope and objective.
As was reported in the Jewish Journal, the decision for the Jewish Federation to move back to the site at 6505 Wilshire was an emotional one. It was also a difficult one, in light of the enormous changes facing the Los Angeles Jewish community.
When Herb Gelfand became president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, he made Jewish continuity the top priority of his 1996-98 tenure.
Gottfried Wagner was only 9 when he stole a key his father had hidden and slipped into the Festspielhaus, the shrine to his great-grandfather, Richard Wagner.
When incoming Prime Minister Ehud Barak needs to talk things over with Gen. Shaul Mofaz, the military chief of staff, he won\’t have to go far: Mofaz lives 12 houses away from him in the town of Kochav Yair.
During my visit to a refugee camp in Macedonia with a group of 16 American Jews last week, a waif-like girl wearing a dusty black-and-red parka stood on her toes to peer into my notebook.
The question left pending until this Tuesday\’s run-off between incumbent Barbara Boudreaux and challenger Genethia Hayes is, will Tokofsky get to command a new majority?
The Academy for Jewish Religion, a transdenominational rabbinical seminary, will open its doors in Los Angeles this fall, giving formal expression to a longtime trend toward a more personalized, spiritually oriented, pluralistic Judaism, academy founders say.
For years, I stayed away from the Renaissance Pleasure Faire as if it were the Black Plague itself. First, there was the name: As Andy Rooney would be the first to grouch, things with the words \”Fun\” or \”Pleasure\” in their title rarely offer anything of the sort. Then there were the people I knew growing up who participated. They looked forward to the yearly appearance of the Faires like pilgrims at Guadalupe, and turned their lives upside down to spend spring weekends, Trekkie-like, devoted to inhabiting a fantasy.
When Spectator caught up with Monique Powell, lead singer of the pop sensation Save Ferris, she was wandering around Anaheim, tired, displaced and searching for food.
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