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Puff, the magic (Kosher) pastry
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2014
The cupcake. The macaron. And now the nuage cake.
All night with God: Picturing revelation
Jewish Journal
May 28, 2014
In a City of Angels, with murals and figures of the agents of heaven fluttering everywhere, as we approach Shavuot and the time of Matan Torah — the receiving of the Torah — you would think that finding a place to have a revelatory moment would be as easy as stepping outside.
Chai time for a new location
Jewish Journal
August 28, 2013
For the past eight years, the Chai Center has been holding High Holy Days services at the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Theater in Beverly Hills. This year, however, just weeks before Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz received a call from the WGA indicating that, because of construction, the theater space would not be available.
Ralphs adds kosher mart
Jewish Journal
February 13, 2013
At 8 a.m. on Feb. 6, a sizable space inside the enormous and newly remodeled Ralphs at Third Street and La Brea Avenue became the Hancock Park-La Brea neighborhood’s newest kosher market. As the Los Angeles High School Marching Band played, speeches were made ,and checks were presented to neighborhood schools, including Fairfax High School, John Burroughs Middle School and Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov Ohr Eliyahu. Meanwhile, men in kippot and women in sheitels (wigs), berets and scarves appeared proud, excited — and a little anxious.
Bet Tzedek moves east
Ryan Torok
November 28, 2012
Ever since Bet Tzedek’s inception in 1974, the free legal-services firm has mostly been housed in the heavily Jewish Fairfax district, with additional offices in the San Fernando Valley and the Mid-Wilshire area.
Candidate Adeena
David Suissa
July 24, 2008
If you want to really annoy Adeena Bleich, just ask her what it feels like to be a young Orthodox woman running for City Council. I know, because when we sat\ndown recently for lunch at Shiloh\’s, the first thing I asked her is what it felt like to be a young Orthodox woman running for City Council.
VIDEO: Mind of Mencia — cultural explorer Carlos goes to Fairfax to visit the Jews
Jewish Journal
July 8, 2008
Official Comedy Central Video: The Mind of Mencia — cultural explorer Carlos goes to visit the Jews
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