Friday, February 3, 2012
Milken JCC to close in June
By JewishJournal
The JCC at Milken in West Hills announced this week that it will shut its doors permanently as of June 30. The 42-year-old center will also close its. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Pearl lecture features New Yorker editor Remnick
By Susan Freudenheim
“I learned a lot from WikiLeaks,” David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine, told a full auditorium at UCLA’s Anderson School of. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
February is Inclusion Awareness Month
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Jay Sanderson visited Vista Del Mar’s Ness Gadol Shabbat services last week, and it was a personal as well as communal inspiration for him to see. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Beyond labels, raising autistic son yields treasure
By Ryan E. Smith
Jews and people with autism have a lot in common, if you ask Ezra Fields-Meyer. As an autistic young man, he knows he has a good memory and likes to. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
LimmudLA, Jewlicious: Two gatherings, one goal
By Ryan Torok
Over Presidents Day weekend last year, nearly 500 Jews of all affiliations holed up at the Hilton hotel in Costa Mesa to attend virtually. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A Biblical garden story
by Jonathan Maseng
Rabbi Jonathan Kupetz and his wife, Karen, are stumped. They’re trying to explain just how many varieties of lettuce they’ve been able to grow. . .
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
L.A. Jewish foundation helping war vets
JTA
The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles awarded some $200,000 in grants for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and financial literacy programs.. . .
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Four L.A. schools win PEJE Challenge Grant Awards
by Rachel Wizenfeld
Four Los Angeles-area day schools were selected last month as winners of the 2011 Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE) Challenge. . .
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tu B’Shevat fest branching out
By Ryan Torok
What do Grammy-winning band Ozomatli, tree planting and a bungee trampoline have in common? This year, they’ll all be part of a festival. . .
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Hail to the chief rabbi
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
The chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, will address several Los Angeles gatherings Feb. 3-5 in a. . .
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Who’s afraid of children’s art?
by Jonathan Maseng
In September 2011, the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland (MOCHA) was expected to open an exhibition called “A Child’s View of Gaza.” The. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Jews vs. Gentiles
by Lee Barnathan
When Gary Turner first heard about the Jews versus Gentiles baseball game, he wondered, “What is that about?”. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Secular Yeshiva holds Socratic-style seminars
By Ryan Torok
For the second year in row, local Yiddish learning organization Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) will offer Secular Yeshiva, a bimonthly course with. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
$5 million gift renames Vista Del Mar campus
By Ryan Torok
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services got a new name on Jan. 12, to include the designation the Joyce and Stanley Black Family Campus, in light of. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Two reform clergy to take their liberal spirit to Israel
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Rabbi Don Goor of Temple Judea and Cantor Evan Kent of Temple Isaiah announced to their congregations on Jan. 11 that they will be moving to Israel. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Head of school loves learning from kids
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Rabbi Larry Scheindlin takes the mike. He squats behind a thick plastic sheet that forms the screen of a cardboard television set, and lobs questions. . .
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Up in the air, but down-to-earth
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
The strange thing about talking with Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld is that in a 90-minute conversation, we hardly discussed the plane crash that almost killed. . .
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Sherman lays into Berman in four-way Congressional debate
By Jonah Lowenfeld
In 2001, the last time the lines of congressional districts were redrawn, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) so hated the way that the San Fernando. . .
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
La Cañada’s young school reformer
By Jonah Lowenfeld
It’s easy to conjure up images of the folks pushing education reform in districts where students are obviously struggling. Think of Michelle Rhee,. . .
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Eden cemetery trial set for May
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge has denied a motion that would have ended a class action lawsuit alleging that the owners of Eden Memorial. . .
Monday, January 9, 2012
Maimonides students turn lemons into family aid
By Lauren Bottner
Students from Maimonides Academy raised $350 at three lemonade stands Dec. 11, to support families that the school has adopted through Jewish Family. . .
Monday, January 9, 2012
Maimonides students turn lemons into family aid
JTA
Students from Maimonides Academy raised $350 at three lemonade stands Dec. 11, to support families that the school has adopted through Jewish Family. . .
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Pro-Israel philanthropist Newton Becker dies at age 83
By Ryan Torok
Philanthropist Newton Becker died on Sunday, Jan. 2, and with his death, the pro-Israel and Jewish community has lost one of its biggest supporters.. . .
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Financial exec Rubin pleads guilty
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
David Rubin, chairman of the board of Yavneh Hebrew Academy in Hancock Park and president of YULA girls’ high school, pleaded guilty in federal. . .
