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anniversary
Locals absent at ceremony in Poland marking postwar atrocity
Jewish Journal
July 11, 2016
Some 150 people attended a commemoration on the 75th anniversary of a massacre of hundreds of Polish Jews by their neighbors in the country’s northeast.
Neighborhood Music School hits 100
Jewish Journal
October 11, 2012
While the Emmy Awards were under way at downtown’s Nokia Theatre on Sept. 23, a very different — but no less emotional — celebration of the arts took place less than half an hour away in the leafy residential community of San Marino.
Israel marking Rabin assassination
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2010
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin \”must not be forgiven or forgotten,\” Israeli President Shimon Peres said at a candlelighting ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.
JDub throws off the label and opts for change
George Robinson
July 23, 2008
JDub was never supposed to be just a record label, and as JDub records celebrates its fifth anniversary with a free concert on July 27 downtown at California Plaza, it is more clear than ever that the organization\’s founders have greater ambitions than merely putting out good Jewish CDs
L.A.’s German Jews celebrate club’s 75th year
Peter L. Rothholz
May 1, 2008
By 1939 some 2,500 German Jews had relocated to Los Angeles, and by 1941, when the United States entered the war, their number had grown to 6,000, making Los Angeles the second-largest center of German-speaking Jews in America. As the German Jews made connections with the L.A. Jewish community, two immigrant businessmen came together to form The German Jewish Club of 1933.
Couple stands under the chuppah — 60 years on
Jane Ulman
April 11, 2008
\”What is this chuppah? We didn\’t order it.\”
Maria Shvarts, 80, spotting the wedding canopy standing on the dance floor at West Hollywood\’s Cafe Troyka, asked the restaurant staff to remove it. She and her husband Boris, 84, were hosting a 60th anniversary party. Guests were arriving, and the chuppah — obviously from a previous celebration, she thought — was an obstruction.
Think you know ‘The Jazz Singer’? You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!
Pat Sierchio
September 21, 2007
The Warners predicted, correctly, that \”The Jazz Singer\” would be \”without a doubt, the biggest stride since the birth of the industry.\” But the film\’s importance may not rest solely on the fact that it was the first sound film. It was also the first film to boldly address the assimilation of immigrant Jews into American culture.
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