Calabasas Jews hoop it up

Published on March 8, 2012

While Jews all over the world gathered on March 7 to retell the story of Purim, the nine Jews on the Calabasas high school boys basketball team celebrated differently: by playing in their first California Interscholastic Federation State Tournament.

2 teens sentenced in Calabasas anti-Semitic graffiti case

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 15, 2011

Third Calabasas High School Suspect Appears in Court

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on June 30, 2011

Three Calabasas vandals were charged Tuesday with hate crime

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 17, 2011

Formal charges -- including a hate crime allegation -- were filed on Tuesday afternoon, May 17, against the three Calabasas High School students who were arrested for defacing their school with anti-Semitic and racist graffiti last month, a spokesperson from the Los Angeles County District Attorney told the Jewish Journal on Tuesday.

Sheriff to push for hate crime charges in Calabasas anti-semitic graffiti case

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 28, 2011

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will push for hate crime enhancements to felony charges of vandalism expected to be filed soon against three Calabasas High School students, an official from the Sheriff’s Department said Thursday.

Three students arrested for anti-Semitic graffiti at Calabasas High School

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 27, 2011

Three Calabasas High School students were arrested Wednesday morning, April 27, and taken to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Malibu/Lost Hills station in connection with extensive anti-Semitic and racist graffiti found at their school on Saturday, according to Sgt. Eric Lasko of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Police say Calabasas High students were behind anti-Semitic graffiti

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 26, 2011

Investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have identified three students at Calabasas High School as the alleged vandals behind extensive anti-Semitic graffiti found on school property on Saturday morning, April 23, a spokesperson from the Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday afternoon. The students have not yet been charged, and the case will be presented to a district attorney on Friday, according to Sergeant Mike Holland of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Anti-Islam Petition Fails to Sway UCLA

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 8, 2011

“Islam is NOT a religion.” “Please understand the danger that Islam poses to our society.” “OUTLAW ISLAM IN AMERICA!”

Siblings show they have write stuff

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on March 8, 2007

For Daniel and Lauren, becoming authors has also meant serving as peer educators.

"I told my friends that I wrote a book about the Holocaust, and at least three of them didn't know what it was," said Daniel. Lauren had a similar experience.

Calabasas evens playing field for special-needs kids

By Adam Wills
Published on October 19, 2006

The city of Calabasas is preparing a play area where the thousands of special-needs children living in the Conejo and West San Fernando valleys can play alongside all children their age. Brandon's Village, the area's first universally accessible handicapped playground, is scheduled to open on Oct. 28 at Gates Canyon Park on Thousand Oaks Boulevard, just east of Las Virgenes Road.

Growing a Shul in Calabasas

By Rabbi Dov Fischer
Published on August 26, 2004

It is now two years since I moved to Calabasas to become the rabbi of a new Orthodox congregation. And there is no time like the eve of the Jewish New Year to take stock.

People said it couldn't be done. Some believed there was not much hope for an Orthodox synagogue in this community bordering the San Fernando and Conejo valleys, where expensive homes pepper the steep hills, because members would have to walk to services, and outsiders would be deterred from moving here because of the high price of housing.

The Battle Over Mesivta

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on October 24, 2002

The protracted court case, which is now awaiting an environmental impact report (EIR) from the school, shows how badly a school building project can go when met with fiery opposition by the surrounding community.

Bringing Back Memories

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on March 14, 2002

A woman in a peach-colored sweatsuit sits in a sunlit hallway at the Silverado Senior Living Center in Calabasas. Once she was a professor at a California State University campus, teaching English literature. Now, because of the effects of Alzheimer's disease, she barely has a word to share, only a bemused smile for people she thinks she recognizes.