This year’s Beit T’Shuvah Circle of Majesty luncheon honored Andrea Sossin-Bergman for her contributions to the organization’s externship program, and raised more than $100,000 for the Jewish rehabilitation center that serves those wrestling with addiction issues.
How do you throw a birthday party for a community treasure who’s turning 99?
In 1894, a young Jewish woman traveled alone from Russia to the United States to marry a man she’d never met and start a homesteader’s life on the stark plains of North Dakota.
On the first floor of the Pico Union Project, members of the Women’s Mosque of America are preparing the historic sanctuary for prayers, spreading long bolts of cloth on the floor, hanging a banner from the organ loft and placing an open copy of the Koran in the just-vacated Holy Ark.\n
A mosaic of more than 100 women of all ages attended the inaugural Women’s Mosque of America’s jumma’a, the Friday call to prayer, on Jan 30.
When Jews and Muslims came together for a “twinning” event on Nov. 16, the Pico Union Project was filled with jamming, rapping, rhetoric, dancing and more.
If you could change one thing about your bar or bat mitzvah, what would it be, and why?
The Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles (VPC) honored Union Bank; ABC Family’s “The Fosters”; and Patti Giggans, executive director of nonprofit Peace Over Violence; during its Angel of Peace Awards on Sept. 30.
American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is not optimistic that Iran will abandon its nuclear program.
Organizers of the Thanksgivukkah Festival, a local celebration of the once-in-a-lifetime convergence of Chanukah and Thanksgiving, figured the Pico Union Project in central Los Angeles would be the ideal place to party.
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