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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Windmueller to Retire, Holo New Dean at L.A.’s Reform College

By Tom Tugend

Steven F. Windmueller, a prominent figure in Jewish communal and academic life, will retire as the Los Angeles campus dean of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on July 1.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Attorney Calls State Report Exonerating Eden Memorial Shoddy and Inadequate

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax

State investigators reported last week that they have no evidence to prove that Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills mishandled graves, as alleged in a class-action lawsuit filed against the cemetery’s owners in September.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Windmueller to step down as HUC dean

JTA

The dean of the Los Angeles campus of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is retiring.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Clinton, Bush L.A. Appearance on Hold

By Tom Tugend

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have canceled their joint public lecture in Los Angeles, but the sponsoring American Jewish University (AJU) believes that the cancellation rests on a misunderstanding and is working to reverse the presidential decisions.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

New Hebrew School for Kids With Special Needs

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax

The Friendship Circle of Los Angeles, a program that pairs teen volunteers with kids with special needs, now includes an after-school supplementary Jewish education program. The Friendship Circle Hebrew School opened Nov. 9 with separate boys and girls classes for kids with moderate to severe conditions such as autism, Asperger’s, Down syndrome and pervasive developmental delays.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Con Man Suspected in Multiple Thefts

By Tom Tugend

Los Angeles police are still trying to find a smooth-talking crook who stole $26,000 in cash, jewelry and watches from the Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv basketball team.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

L.A. Branch Safe in Reform University’s Long-Range Plan

By Tom Tugend

Over the next five years, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), the four-campus academic flagship of the Reform movement, will tighten its institutional belt by slimming down its faculty and administration, selling off real estate and instituting “electronic” classes.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

L.A. Unity Trip: Statements from the Rabbis

By JewishJournal.com

Statements from the Rabbis.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Unity Trip

By Meredith Price Levitt

Israeli Consul General of Los Angeles Jacob Dayan personally invited the 18 L.A. rabbis from Orthodox, Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism to come to Israel for 58 hours last week, but the consulate’s mission to transmit a message of solidarity with Israel had other results too. By the end of the short trip, many of the rabbis expressed a deeper understanding of the important social problems facing Israel today, as well as a renewed hope for peace and a rejuvenated passion for the thriving Zionist dream.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Shooting, Graffiti Unsettle Area Synagogues

By Tom Tugend

The L.A. Jewish community remained on alert this week as police continued their hunt for a gunman who shot and wounded two congregants at a Sephardic synagogue the San Fernando Valley.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Jewish Home’s Annenberg School Graduates 18 Nurses

by Emily Kaplan, Contributing Writer

After being laid off from her job as a network-programming engineer, Jennifer Imbag asked God what she should do with her life. One night soon afterward, she dreamed she was in a white coat in a white room. Not yet understanding what the dream meant, she continued on the search for her next step, only to have the message made clearer by a fortune cookie that read, “You could prosper in the field of medicine.”

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

FBI Notified of UCI Muslim Group’s Fundraising

by Lisa Armony, Contributing Writer

Administrators at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), have sent information to the FBI alleging that members of the university’s Muslim Student Union (MSU) collected money at a campus event, which was given to an organization that provided funds to Hamas.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Anti-Defamation League Statement on Shooting at Synagogue

Alison Mayersohn, Senior Associate, Director Pacific Southwest Region Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League expressed deep concern about the shooting this morning at Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in North Hollywood.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

False bomb threat at Wilshire Blvd. Temple drew LAPD to the scene

By Tom Tugend

The Los Angeles police bomb squad searched the premises of Wilshire Boulevard Temple after the synagogue’s security guards reported an unattended canvas shopping bag lying inside the gate.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Two shot at North Hollywood synagogue, warning issued to Jewish schools

By Adam Wills

The Los Angeles Police Department has issued an alert to all Jewish day schools and synagogues after two men were shot early this morning in the parking lot of Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Shooting at North Hollywood synagogue

JTA

Two people were shot in the legs at a synagogue in North Hollywood, Calif.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Memo to Chief Bartow

by Jack Weiss

The Police Commission and the Mayor are reaching out as they consider possible finalists to succeed LAPD Chief Bill Bratton. One person who should be on their call list but isn’t is Gene Bartow.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Fans Embrace Maccabi Electra at Staples

by Lee Barnathan, Contributing Writer

It’s a long way to fly for a home game, but that was the effect when Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s players walked into Staples Center, more than 7,500 miles from Israel, to play the Clippers in an exhibition game on Tuesday, Oct. 20. Rather than wearing the blue uniforms normally associated with a Maccabi away game, the players wore home gold, which gave the superficial appearance of a Lakers-Clippers match-up.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Kathy Ireland Named Sheba Ambassador

By Orit Arfa

Supermodel turned supermogul Kathy Ireland has been named the international ambassador of Holyland Heroes, a new Friends of Sheba Medical Center campaign to raise awareness and support of wounded soldiers and victims of terror being treated at Sheba’s National Center for Rehabilitation.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Cedars-Sinai Under Fire for Radiation Overdoses

By Tom Tugend

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a widely respected Jewish institution, is facing lawsuits, investigations and embarrassment after heavy overdoses of radiation administered to 206 patients went undetected for 18 months.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Assemblymen Announce Iran Divestment Legislation

by Ryan Torok, Contributing Writer

California Assemblymen Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) and Bob Blumenfield (D-San Fernando Valley) have announced plans to introduce legislation in January that would prohibit California public entities from doing business with corporations that have contracts with Iran’s energy sector.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Women Rabbis Shed Light on Unique Roles

By Danielle Berrin

Nearly 40 years since the Reform movement ordained the first female rabbi in America, women rabbis have become an integral force in American Jewish movements outside Orthodoxy, and their experience, thought to be distinct from that of men, has become a topic of curiosity.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

[VIDEO] Women Rabbis: Trailblazers and Innovators

By JewishJournal.com

Video footage from "Women Rabbis: Trailblazers and Innovators"

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Family Stone: An Echo Park Furniture Store Saga

TheEastsiderLA.com

When the Stone family opened up their Echo Park furniture store in the 1940s, most of the clientele was Jewish.