Ohr HaTorah ends 15-year trip in a walk down Barrington to a new home

It was a sight Mar Vista doesn\'t see every day -- a guitar-studded procession of more than 100 Jewish revelers marching jubilantly down South Barrington Avenue with five Torah scrolls.

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Rachel Heller

August 19, 2008

It was a sight Mar Vista doesn’t see every day — a guitar-studded procession of more than 100 Jewish revelers marching jubilantly down South Barrington Avenue with five Torah scrolls.

Members of Ohr HaTorah synagogue, which until this month held services at a church in West Los Angeles, donned sun hats and sneakers Aug. 8 to carry their Torahs south to the congregation’s new location — and first permanent home — on Venice Boulevard.

The walk was only 2.8 miles, but the journey was 15 years in the making.

“We finally have a place that feels like home,” said Meirav Finley, who