Faced with a pension shortfall of $20 million, the organized Jewish community\’s largest philanthropy finds itself forced to divert millions of donor dollars to employee retirement benefits, rather than to needed social services.
In a watershed event for the California central coast\’s small Jewish community, the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation marked the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht by opening the city\’s first permanent Holocaust exhibit.
The opening shows just how far this small Jewish community has come.
Shortly after September 11, when the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles (JFGLA) renewed its insurance policy, it found that rates nearly doubled.
This year, it will be even worse, according to Jack Klein, the Federation\’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Singles frustrated with superficial dating encounters can find vastly different ways to do something about it.
Whether it\’s a seven-minute SpeedDate, a shidduch rooted in tradition or something in between, Jewish singles are meeting and marrying in Orange County.
Putting his own twist on a frequently invoked slogan, Lou Weiss, the newly elected president of Orange County\’s Jewish Federation, intends to make inclusiveness a priority during his tenure
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is right on (\”Jews Should Welcome Evangelical Support,\” July 26.) We should be thanking the evangelical Christian community for their great support of Israel.
The third annual daylong symposium sponsored by the Jewish Federation in Worcester, Mass., was titled, \”A Woman\’s Voice,\” without the slightest hint of irony. Less than a generation ago, \”a woman\’s voice\” meant only one thing, the talmudic prohibition of Orthodox men toward hearing the sound of Jewish women in prayer.
Kol isha (a woman\’s voice) was used as the legal barrier against women becoming rabbis and cantors, the excuse for exclusion.
That\’s why I named this newspaper column A Woman\’s Voice, to break down a wall.
Bruce I. Hochman, a former president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, died Aug. 11 at the age of 72.
If leading a life rich in personal, professional and community success is a balancing act, then Larry Cohen, president of Glyphix, has been successfully walking that tightrope all of his adult life.
Joseph Jonah Cummins was a complex man. A prominent Hollywood attorney, the powerful, opinionated Cummins represented Errol Flynn and Bette Davis and lived next door to Milton Berle and Jack Benny.
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