Sam Yebri’s filing of papers on Sept. 8 to run for the Los Angeles’ City Council 5th District seat in 2022, is a moment in Iranian Jewish history.
Making the most of quarantine, the Shorten family turned to challah-baking. They have dubbed their mitzvah project “Got Challah.”
When Valley Shelter opened some 30 years ago in a former motel on Lankershim Boulevard, it was the San Fernando Valley’s first refuge for homeless families.
Tally sheets in hand and layered up against the weather — though they were instructed not to leave their vehicles — volunteers took to their cars and spread out into the night to seek out the homeless around Encino as part of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count on Jan. 27.
Richard H. Close is one of the most powerful people in Los Angeles who most people don’t know.
The late photographer Larry Sultan was fascinated with the mundane.
For years, Valley Jewish Community Center (VJCC) — the modern incarnation of North Valley Jewish Community Center (NVJCC) — functioned as a hub “without walls.”
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