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Check it out: A new Jewish library for L.A.
Jewish Journal
October 5, 2016
The Burton Sperber Jewish Community Library at American Jewish University (AJU) in Bel Air opened its doors Sept. 25, printing out library cards at its circulation desk for the public for the very first time and welcoming dozens of children, parents and grandparents for an open house.
Making Judaism radiate with color
Kylie Ora Lobell
September 7, 2016
Hillel Smith believes art has the power to transform Judaism, and he hopes his latest creation — a 25-foot-tall mural in Pico-Robertson featuring text from ha-Motzi — can prove it.
Teens turn CEO for a week to learn about Israel and tech
Eitan Arom
July 6, 2016
Ten startups recently took the stage at American Jewish University (AJU) to pitch their ideas for how to implement Israeli water technology in the United States at an event hosted by the Israeli-American Council (IAC).
Celebrating Aristides de Sousa Mendes, diplomat and Holocaust hero, who saved 10,000 Jews
Tom Tugend
January 15, 2016
Los Angeles Jews will celebrate the life and moral courage of a devout Catholic beginning Jan. 22, with the world premiere of an oratorio, an exhibition, film screenings and a memorial service.
News reports revive AJU environmental debate
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2015
Nuclear expert Dan Hirsch made a promise in 1979 that would drag him into a three-decade fight he didn’t ask for, a fight that has since drawn in Boeing, an alphabet soup of regulators and, most recently, American Jewish University (AJU).
Jerusalem and L.A. join forces for Biennale
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2015
When the Jewish Artists Initiative, the Los Angeles-based arts collective chaired by Ruth Weisberg, decided to participate in the 2015 Jerusalem Biennale, Georgia Freedman-Harvey knew she’d be accumulating a lot of frequent-flier miles.
NBC investigation reopens contamination question at SoCal Jewish camp
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2015
For years, Victoria Tashman didn’t think much of the sonic booms coming from the Santa Susana Field Lab, just uphill from a storied Jewish retreat and campus near her home in the Simi Valley.
The year of the creative in Jewish education
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2015
This week, countless young children in Jewish schools of all varieties will bring home familiar handmade crafts for the Jewish New Year: paper towel tube shofarot, “stained glass” honey dishes made of plastic bowls and colored with markers, and decorated “Shanah Tovah” cards.
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