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Orthodox students fighting to keep presence at UCLA

Julie Gruenbaum Fax February 24, 2011

A program that is credited with creating a vibrant Orthodox community at UCLA needs to prove by the end of March that it can raise $80,000 annually to ensure its future on the Westwood campus. The Orthodox Union (OU) has paid the salaries for two professionals who founded and have been running Shabbat programming, Torah study and daily services at UCLA for ten years, and now OU (http://www.ou.org/) says Los Angeles needs to put up a share of the cost, as other communities have done to support the program at 15 campuses across North America.

UC Irvine faculty to DA: drop criminal charges

Jewish Journal February 16, 2011

One hundred faculty members at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), have called on Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas to drop criminal charges against 11 current and former students arrested in February 2010 for disrupting a public speech by Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, on the UCI campus.

Luskin family donates $100 million to UCLA

Ryan Torok February 2, 2011

Meyer Luskin and his wife, Renee, are donating $100 million to UCLA, the university’s second largest gift in its history, Chancellor Gene Block announced Jan. 26.

New Jew to relocate to larger, permanent West Hills campus

Rachel Heller January 27, 2011

“We now have a ‘makom’ — a sacred space in which to house our values,” said Bruce Powell, head of school at New Community Jewish High School, shortly after the deal was announced that New Jew may have finally found a permanent home — at the site of its first home.

NCJHS to move to larger, permanent West Hills campus

Rachel Heller January 5, 2011

“We now have a ‘makom’ — a sacred space in which to house our values,” said Bruce Powell, head of school at New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS), shortly after the deal was announced that NCJHS may have finally found a permanent home — at the site of its first home.

New Community Jewish High School buys Milken JCC campus

Julie Gruenbaum Fax December 15, 2010

New Community Jewish High School (New Jew) has reached an agreement to purchase the four-acre Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills from The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Shopping for back to shul

Derek Schlom August 31, 2007

Success in finding the perfect shul in Los Angeles for you and your family too often seems just one more visit away.

Stop sugarcoating intermarriage

Steven M. Cohen March 9, 2007

Social scientists, myself included, have charted — and implicitly celebrated — the growing and exhilarating diversity of Jewish identities, communities and innovation.

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