About 400 people at Stephen Wise Temple in Bel Air attended an Oct. 6 memorial service for former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, who died Sept. 28 at age 93.
Why join a temple? When a b’nai mitzvah or a funeral comes along, why not just “rent a rabbi”?
A Torah-dedication ceremony at the ultra-Orthodox Hancock Park synagogue Kollel Yechiel Yehuda drew about 400 people on Aug. 11 — including a number of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers.
Rabbi Eli Herscher is leading a discussion about the December holidays with about two dozen participants of Stephen S. Wise Temple\’s Holiday Workshop Series. The class attracts a good number of intermarried couples and those considering conversion, but they are not the only ones who squirm over the topic.
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