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A Flame of Remembrance

Michael Aushenker April 27, 2000

This Sunday marks the eighth year that the Los Angeles Holocaust Monument in Pan Pacific Park will serve as the local centerpiece of the annual Worldwide Holocaust Memorial Day, in memory of the 6 million Jews who were murdered in Europe at the hands of the Nazi regime. Hosted this year by the Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial Monument Fund, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and Second Generation, the Yom HaShoah gathering is expected to attract more than 2,500 people.

The Golan Debate Reaches New Heights

Avi Machlis September 16, 1999

Rosh Hashanah may be a time of year when Jews around the world pray for peace, but for the 16,000 Jewish residents of the Golan Heights, those prayers were somewhat more difficult to recite this year.

Let’s Celebrate! It’s Yom Kippur!

Julie Gruenbaum Fax September 16, 1999

In the waning hours of Yom Kippur, the last rays of sun cast long shadows through the stained-glass windows. It is time for \”Ne\’ila,\” the final prayer in a day filled with prayer, when the gates on high, opened especially wide for this day, begin their final closing.

A Psalm for a Singer

Jewish Journal April 15, 1999

It\’s tenor time in the Borscht Belt next week. The cantors are coming to the Catskills, close to 400 of them, from Conservative synagogues across the country. With spouses and sundry fans in tow, they\’ll be descending on Kutsher\’s Country Club, one of the last of the region\’s great Jewish watering holes, for three days of music and prayer. It\’s the annual convention of the Cantors\’ Assembly.

A Place Where We All Feel at Home

Rabbi Elazar Muskin April 8, 1999

This past summer, while leading a Jewish Heritage tour through Central and Eastern Europe, we spent Shabbat in the beautiful city of Prague.

When You Haven’t Got a Prayer

Rabbi Ed Feinstein March 18, 1999

They sat like any other family in the noisy restaurant, trading conversation, stories, tales of the day past. But when the waiter brought their meal, something remarkable happened: The conversation stopped, hands were extended and grasped to form a circle around the table, eyes closed, and a quiet prayer was whispered.

Up Front City of Angels

Jewish Journal August 13, 1998

This invocation was delivered by Rabbi Bradley S. Artson, the new executive vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, at the Los Angeles City Council on August 4.

Torah Portion

Rabbi Ed Feinstein November 20, 1997

Who was the first Jew? All of us learned in Sunday School that thefirst Jew was Abraham. It was our father, Abraham, who detected thepresence of the one true God and championed monotheism in a paganworld. It was with Abraham that God established the Covenant,defining our identity, our mission, our destiny. That\’s true. But thefirst Jew wasn\’t Abraham. The first Jew was his son Isaac.

Torah Portion

Rabbi Ed Feinstein May 29, 1997

Because of our sins were we exiled from our land, and displaced far from our soil.\”

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