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A screen capture from the Los Angeles Community Eruv Web site.

After being disrupted by construction on the 405 Freeway, the Los Angeles Community Eruv was expected to be back in operation for the Shabbat beginning at sundown on June 21, Howard Witkin, a community member who oversees the eruv’s maintenance, told the Journal on June 17.

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Doheny to reopen keeping RCC hechsher

Here’s a bit of good news for anyone looking for kosher steak to grill on the Fourth of July: Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market may reopen within. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Obituaries: June 21-27

Obituaries

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Opposition continues despite new Boy Scout policy

In 2001, Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) overwhelmingly decided to end its sponsorship of Cub Scout Pack 1300 to protest the Boy Scouts of. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
On a roll with CicLAvia

In late April, some 200,000 people on foot and on cycles — most with two wheels, some with three or four and even one jerry-rigged to be two. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Practical app-lications

Apps entertain, make life easier, provide a way for us to stay up to date on current events and much more. Some are vital, others less so, but the. . .

Monday, June 17, 2013
Murder victim related to temple founder

A Porter Ranch woman, who authorities said was shot and killed early Friday morning when a domestic dispute escalated, was the daughter of a founding. . .

Friday, June 14, 2013
405 construction downs eruv

The Los Angeles Community Eruv will not be in operation during the Shabbat that begins at sundown tonight, June 14, due to construction on the 405. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013
June 15-21

American Jewish University’s inaugural arts festival begins with an evening of contemporary dance with BODYTRAFFIC and the L.A. Dance Project,. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013
Thousand Oaks rabbi leaves post

Rabbi Ted Riter of Temple Adat Elohim (TAE) in Thousand Oaks officially ended his tenure at the Reform synagogue on May 1, and in a subsequent. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013
Right-wing settlement activist speaks up

The director and co-founder of the Israel Land Fund (ILF), a right-wing, Israel-based pro-settler group, told a small crowd of hawkish Israel. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013
Moving and Shaking

Temple Beth Am honored the Ziering family for its generosity to the Los Angeles Jewish community, Israel, the arts and numerous philanthropic. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013
South African Jews find a home in L.A.

How far can you travel in less than an hour? All the way to Capetown, South Africa, and back, if you are talking to Leora Raikin, a third-generation. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Welcome to rehab city

At 9:30 a.m. on a recent Tuesday morning, six men in their 20s and 30s were sitting on leather chairs in a cozy, dimly lit room in a nondescript. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Lights out (and sirens off) for Hatzolah?

In March 2011, Hatzolah of Los Angeles, the Orthodox Jewish volunteer emergency response corps, celebrated its 10th anniversary in this city.

Friday, June 7, 2013
School music teacher brings in $1.5 million grant

University High School had plenty to celebrate on May 21: the opening of a new gym, six tennis courts, a parent center and — a contrast to the. . .

Friday, June 7, 2013
Gunman kills five in Santa Monica, shot dead by police

A gunman dressed in black killed at least six people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Once a shul, now a church that celebrates Judaism

Some months ago, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was “cruising Boyle Heights,” the neighborhood where he grew up and where a large portion. . .

Members of Thursday, June 6, 2013
L.A. rabbis urge calm at Kotel

Rabbi Laura Geller, a spiritual leader at the Reform Temple Emanuel Beverly Hills, knows firsthand about the restrictions on non-Orthodox Jewish. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Obituaries

Rupert Adler died April 18 at 92. Survived by wife Rona; great-niece Lisa (Victor) Kohn. Mount Sinai

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Moving and Shaking

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti attended Beth Chayim Chadashim’s (BCC) annual awards brunch on June 2 and presented the 2013 Rabbi Erwin and. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Priest discusses Holocaust documentation efforts

The Rev. Patrick Desbois, secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism and adviser to the Vatican on the Jewish religion,. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Slavin Library collection dispersal benefits many

The 10,000 books, games, CDs and DVDs that once lined the walls of the Slavin Children’s Library at 6505 Wilshire Blvd. are on track to once more. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Hertzberg to run for valley district senate seat

Like a veteran warhorse galloping back into the fray, Robert M. (Bob) Hertzberg has announced he is running for a State Senate seat in a district. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013
$10,000 scholarships awarded to four local grads

Four local Jewish high school graduates each have each won annual $10,000 college scholarships from the Geri and Richard Brawerman Leadership. . .

Arts In L.A.
Above: Ohad Knoller stars in “Yossi.” Photo courtesy of Strand ReleasingWednesday, January 30, 2013

‘Yossi’ gets second chance at love

Yossi, the central character in the new eponymous Israeli movie, has changed over the past 10 years, and so have Israel and the world. In 2002, director Eytan Fox introduced him in “Yossi & Jagger,” which became Israel’s highest-grossing film abroad, up to that time.

Unknown sculptor, “A Statue of a Prisoner,” 8.5 cm, wood, KL Auschwitz, 1940-45. Photo courtesy of the UCLA Center for Jewish StudiesWednesday, January 9, 2013

Artists from inside the concentration camps

The Nazis gassed and murdered 1 million prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex, but they could not kill the human urge to create and leave behind a sign of their existence for future generations. Some 20 examples of the prisoners’ artistic legacy are on display in the exhibition “Forbidden Art,” continuing through Jan. 31 at UCLA Hillel and the neighboring St. Alban’s Episcopal Church.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Observant life in progress

Barbara Heller likes to refer to herself as a “growing Jew.” The actress/singer has created a biographical show, “Finding Barb,” that traces her life from her dysfunctional family in Boca Raton, Fla., through her disappointing pursuit of an acting career in New York, to her indoctrination into Orthodox Judaism and, finally, to her present state of trying to balance her commitment to an observant life with her professional ambitions.

Witold LutoslawskiWednesday, November 21, 2012

‘Woven Words’ Celebrates Lutoslawski

Music historians will remember Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) as one of the greatest symphonists of the 20th century. The Los Angeles Philharmonic remembers him as a partner, an artistic collaborator and a regular part of the orchestra’s programming.







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