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Wilshire: Boulevard of Sanctuaries

Kevin Roderick November 11, 2004

The boulevard in the 1920s was the natural place for the institutions and their members to relocate. They saw that, in the future, downtown\’s narrow, congested streets would no longer be the center of the community. Los Angeles was turning into a driving city, and Wilshire became the nation\’s first Automobile Age thoroughfare. Religious establishments that wished to be part of the exciting future moved to Wilshire Boulevard.

Millions More for Shoah Museum

David Finnigan November 11, 2004

\”I\’m not part of this sort of chicken-dinner-at-a-hotel fundraising mentality,\” said Rachel Jagoda, the 31-year-old director of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. \”I am young and I do have new ideas.\”

I Love a Parade

Rabbi Lawrence Goldmark September 2, 2004

What do we have in Judaism that comes closest to a military parade? It occurred to me that every Sabbath morning, when we take out the Torah and walk around the sanctuary, we are actually simulating a military parade. No guns, not tanks, no jet planes to impress onlookers.

Community Briefs

Jewish Journal May 13, 2004

A report that Israel\’s President Moshe Katsav chided Iranian Jews for settling in Los Angeles rather than in Israel has been criticized by a leader of the local Iranian Jewish community.

Members Rally to Save Centers

Marc Ballon March 25, 2004

Protestors, many clad in orange T-shirts stamped with the word \”Shalom,\” cheered speakers who alternately pled for the center\’s survival and criticized The Federation and the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA) for failing to do more to save it.

Community Briefs

Jewish Journal March 18, 2004

Milken Community High School senior Nona Farahnik was named Milken Idol for her stirring pro-Israel speech in the school\’s March 10 public speaking finals, with other competitors talking about bullies, cheating, the homeless and Special Olympics in the \”American Idol\”-inspired contest.

Prime Time for Hitler

Sally Ogle Davis August 1, 2002

Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS and Nancy Tellem, his entertainment chief, confirmed what had been up until then only a frisson: The network would air a young Adolf Hitler miniseries right in the middle of next year\’s sweeps.

Digitizing the Shoah

Gustavo Arellano May 2, 2002

A conference on the importance of Holocaust education focused on training teachers to make better use of the Internet revolution.

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