Edward Sanders, a community leader for 45 years, is heading the \”Campaign for the 21st Century,\” which expects to raise $20 million by Dec. 31 to fund the rebuilding project.
A flamboyant underworld attorney and former synagogue president was elected mayor of Las Vegas by a landslide, according to the final results from last Tuesday\’s vote.
As was reported in the Jewish Journal, the decision for the Jewish Federation to move back to the site at 6505 Wilshire was an emotional one. It was also a difficult one, in light of the enormous changes facing the Los Angeles Jewish community.
If you closed your eyes and sat very still, you could almost feel history unfolding last week in Conference Room No. 1 at national United Jewish Appeal headquarters in New York. One of the most broadly representative parliamentary bodies in organized American Jewish life was gathered to vote itself, in effect, out of existence.
Was the United Jewish Fund 1998 campaign up, down or flat? It depends on how you interpret the numbers.
As the new millennium draws near, how is the Jewish Federation preparing for it?
I thought the readers of The Jewish Journal wouldbe interested in one of the many things The Jewish Federation does tobuild bridges between Israel and our community.
It\’s finally happened. Marketing gurus have gottentheir hands on Shabbat, taking it off dining-room tables and throwingit up onto billboards across the nation — in the hopes of bringingit back down to more tables.
Attorney Gerry Schubert may be a relatively familiar face in Orange County; alongtime resident of Yorba Linda and a member at Mission Viejo\’s Congregation Eilat, Schubert is actively involved in Jewish Federation projects. But, soon, he may become better known for the release of his second musical CD, \”Life in the Moment\” (GalleryRecords).
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