Fundraising program for day schools meets goal
Kylie Ora Lobell
June 17, 2015
Five local day schools have collected more than 21 million ways to make Jewish education more affordable in Los Angeles.
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June 17, 2015
Father’s Day: Down-to-Earth role model rabbi
Ellie Kahn
June 17, 2015
“The most outstanding memory I have of my father is the way he greeted people.\”
Father’s Day: Sending love from the bimah
Ellie Kahn
June 17, 2015
“I didn’t have the same kind of childhood that my friends had. My father was young when he was taken from his parents and sent into forced labor during the Shoah, leaving an indelible impact on him his entire life.
Father’s Day: A model of involvement
Ellie Kahn
June 17, 2015
“My father was always very kind and connected to his family.\”
A father’s love: Stories for Father’s Day
Ellie Kahn, Oral Historian
June 17, 2015
My father, Bob Goldhamer, passed away two years ago, a week after his 94th birthday.
Hebrew spoken by a rainbow of Young L.A. voices
Ryan Torok
June 17, 2015
It’s story time at Lashon Academy Charter School, and Hebrew teacher Ravit Shemesh is reading a Hebrew-language picture book about a grandmother to a group of students sitting at her feet on the classroom’s carpet. Among them is Veer Joshi, a non-Jewish Indian student.
Moving and shaking: Ordination, graduation, The Learned Hand Award and more
Ryan Torok
June 17, 2015
Local seminaries were in full ordination and graduation mode last month, celebrating a combined total of 30 new rabbis among them.
ADL to introduce graphic novel about tragedy in Tel Aviv bar
Ryan Torok
June 17, 2015
American filmmaker and freelance journalist Jack Baxter got more than he bargained for when he set out in 2003 to make a film about Mike’s Place, the famous live music bar in Tel Aviv.
White suspect arrested in killing of nine at black U.S. church
Jewish Journal
June 17, 2015
A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible-study group at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina was arrested on Thursday and U.S. officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
Fire guts part of Church of Loaves and Fishes on Sea of Galilee
Jewish Journal
June 17, 2015
Fire gutted part of the Church of Loaves and Fishes on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel on Thursday and investigators suspected arson as a possible cause, a police spokesman said.
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