Shabbat at the Ford
Tess Cutler
September 2, 2014
On Friday, August 29, Cantor Craig Taubman hosted his fourth annual Shabbat at the Ford, which took place at the historic Ford Amphitheater.
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The end of an era
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2014
For Craig Taubman, Rabbi David Wolpe and the Friday Night Live Community
Rabbi Wolpe and Craig Taubman’s final Friday Night Live
Ryan Torok
June 18, 2014
For their last time, after 16 years of collaboration, Rabbi David Wolpe and singer/songwriter Craig Taubman led the lively musical Shabbat service at Sinai Temple known as Friday Night Live to a packed sanctuary on the evening of June 13.
American Jewish World Service and ending violence against women
Jewish Journal
June 18, 2014
As musician Craig Taubman strummed some opening chords on his guitar, the audience was quiet, still reflecting upon the words of the community leaders and activists who had spoken earlier.
Sinai Temple’s Friday Night Live to undergo change
Ryan Torok
April 23, 2014
Rabbi David Wolpe and Craig Taubman announced on April 11 that they will no longer be leading Sinai Temple’s highly popular and influential Friday Night Live services after June 13.
Moving and Shaking: Downtown Seder, JQ Int’l gala, Max Spivak named VP, Dr. Ludmila Bess honored
Ryan Torok
April 18, 2014
Song, dance and lots of learning marked the Pico Union Project’s Downtown Seder, the second annual pre-Passover celebration by music producer Craig Taubman’s interfaith organization.
Moving and shaking
Ryan Torok
March 5, 2014
UCLA Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander has been named one of the winners of the 2014 Dan David Prize. He splits a $1 million award with Polish writer and activist Krzysztof Czyzewski and French historian Pierre Nora.
Pico-union hope
Susan Freudenheim
March 21, 2013
A shofar blasted as Cantor Tannoz Bahremand of Stephen S. Wise Temple stepped into the historic downtown sanctuary, raising her voice in prayer as she walked from the back of the pews, down an aisle packed with people, toward the bimah of the newly founded Pico Union Project. The cantor’s haunting song was answered by the equally vibrant chant of a Muslim call to prayer, sung from the front of the sanctuary by Ben Youcef of the Islamic Center of Southern California.
‘Because You Suffer…’
Jewish Journal
March 7, 2013
There was a moment that took place last week in this community that, if you didn’t witness it, you need to hear about it.
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