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Pantry Gets a New Home to Help Hungry

Jane Ulman October 6, 2005

SOVA\’s clients include the elderly, low-wage earners, the recently or long-time unemployed, and those suffering from serious illness or coping with physical or mental disabilities. SOVA provides them and their family members with a monthly allotment of healthy foods — including fruits, vegetables and high protein items — that last about four days, with more available for those who are homeless or in crisis.

Southland Responds to Relief Needs

David Finnigan September 8, 2005

Prominent rabbis have been urging their congregations to give generously to Hurricane Katrina relief funds, the most prominent being one set up by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, which had raised more than $500,000 by early this week.

Efforts Under Way to Raise Aid Funds

Jewish Journal January 6, 2005

Local and national Jewish organizations have mobilized to help tsunami victims and invite the community to participate, as well.\n\n

Lessons From a Film Festival

Sally Ogle Davis March 18, 2004

Three Jews, four opinions — right? Of course right. Now mix in something as subjective as one\’s taste in movies.

Stanley Hirsh, Journal Publisher, Dies at 76

Naomi Pfefferman March 27, 2003

\”This was a really opinionated, obstinate guy,\” said Frank Maas, secretary of The Jewish Federation. \”And yet, he was the most generous man when he saw a person in trouble.\”

Calm But Profitable

Wendy J. Madnick February 27, 2003

The Federation raised more than $4 million this year on Super Sunday, $1 million less than last year\’s $5 million tally. But organizers say that a new fundraising strategy this year has rendered the single-day total superficial.

L.A. Jews Aid Argentines

Florencia Arbiser November 21, 2002

The plight of Argentine Jews hammered by the collapse of their country\’s economy was forcefully brought home to a contingent of Los Angeles Jews this month.

Answering the Call

David Wolpe April 11, 2002

Imagine a cellphone ringing and ringing. Put it in a backpack. Put the backpack next to the wreckage of a bus mangled by a bomb. A rescue worker reaches into the backpack to turn the cellphone off because he cannot bear to hear the voice on the other end of the line.

With that image, from an account given in Israeli papers, I asked my congregants on the first day of Passover to help our sisters and brothers in Israel. We cannot win Israel\’s battles nor restore to life those who have died. But we can buy wheelchairs for the injured. We can pay for physical and emotional therapy for those whose lives are scarred by terror. We can provide social services for the shattered lives of the 400 children orphaned by the recent attacks.

JCCs in Jeopardy

Michael Aushenker November 29, 2001

In what appears to be a critical juncture for the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA), the organization is devising a structural overhaul to prevent severe cutbacks in services and the potential closure of several centers.\n\n

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