The event, which was staged by Cafe Europa, a Jewish Family Service program that serves as a social outlet and offers financial assistance and emotional support to Holocaust survivors, allowed those who shared a common experience to also share the joy of Chanukah with one another.
Second Generation Los Angeles is one of hundreds of organizations that supports children of survivors, but the only one of its kind in Los Angeles.
Tobey C. Moss Gallery\’s \”Holiday Highlights\” boasts a linocut by Henri Matisse and aquatints by Joan Miro — both part of the \”PaperPassion\” portion of the show.
Shattering the cinematic taboo made the film, and its filmmakers, virtual pariahs in Hollywood and beyond.
Contrary to widespread fears of a rising global wave of anti-Semitism, "we, as Jews, have many more friends than we think we have," said professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, president of the Association of Jewish Studies, which recently held its 34th annual meeting in Los Angeles.
The Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA), which last year nearly drowned amid a sea of red ink and allegations of mismanagement, wants to get out of the business of running major community centers after 60 years.
Rabbi Avi Weiss left Yeshiva University (YU) in New York three years ago to found a new rabbinic school for one simple reason: "We were not graduating enough Yosefs," said Weiss, a political activist and progressive Orthodox Jewish leader.
This week\’s Torah portion, Shemot, finds us studying the Book of Exodus for the first time this year. Probing the text, I began to think about the Hebrew word tevah (ark) that is found only twice in the Torah — in parshat Noah and in this one.
We live in the age of full disclosure. In this era of creepy stalkers, emotional maniacs and frightening venereal diseases, you can\’t be too careful, so singles have learned to utilize romantic phrases such as, \”Have you been tested for AIDS lately?\” as casually as one used to suggest, \”Shall I pick you up at 8?\”
I once had a history teacher who was ambivalent about dates. Before a test, an anxious student would invariably ask whether we\’d need to remember what year an event happened.
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