More Ponzi in Iranian-Jewish community

By Karmel Melamed
Published on April 29, 2013

Bringing Israel to L.A.

Published on April 23, 2013

At a recent early-morning bagel breakfast in Century City, Israeli entrepreneur Chagit Rubinstein had the chance to do what any foreign businesswoman searching for a market in Southern California dreams of: She networked.

What Israel means to me

Published on April 19, 2013

Pinpointing what makes people so passionate about Israel is no easy thing, perhaps because there are so many options.

Simple Things (Justice, Decency)

By Aryeh Cohen
Published on April 18, 2013

Kosher consumers reeling after Doheny scandal

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 28, 2013

Trust lies at the center of the business of kosher food, and earlier this week, in what is certainly the biggest kosher scandal to hit Los Angeles in 20 years, the trust many kosher consumers placed in Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats, a market on Pico Boulevard in the heart of L.A.’s most prominent Orthodox neighborhood, was shattered.

FIDF show goes on without Stevie Wonder [VIDEO]

By Danielle Berrin
Published on December 7, 2012

Metro study backs Century City stop for Westside subway

Published on March 20, 2012

On Monday, L.A. Metro’s long-awaited Westside Subway Extension reached an important milestone with the release of the project’s final environmental impact statement and report. According to a recent article in The Source — “What Makes This Westside Subway Proposal Different From All the Others?” — the idea of a subway to the Westside dates back to 1961, when “a predecessor agency to the present-day Metro.

Finding their place [VIDEO]

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on February 22, 2012

Lauren Levine is settling in with a group of friends apartment to watch “American Idol,” when a look of panic comes over her face. She rummages around, finds her keys and darts out.“I left the hair thing on,” she says when she returns, breathless, from her own apartment downstairs. “I was straightening Jasmine’s hair before we came up here, and I forgot to turn it off. Wow. That was close.” Levine has wide blue eyes accentuated with sparkly eye shadow, and her voice is spiced with a sense of interested wonder.

Go West, young Torah-observant Jews!

By Amy Klein
Published on October 12, 2006

The wait is finally over for members of Young Israel of Century City, who were eagerly anticipating the theme of the annual program "brochure," which was kept secret until its publication last week. It's ... Old West

A Man for All Seasonings

By Hank Rosenfeld
Published on June 1, 2006

Like many baby-boomers today, I sometimes feel older than Keith Richards up a palm tree. So when Irv and Eddie, my better elders, invite me to go out with them, I tag along, if only to combat creepy self-pity.

Unmasking Israel’s Mystery Benefactor

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 4, 2006

The mystery man of the Israeli economy, as he was dubbed by the country's media, is alive and well and living in Los Angeles.

Eulogies: Dr. Robert W. Brooks

By David Margolis
Published on September 26, 2002

Dr. Robert W. Brooks, an interna-tionally renowned mathematician who made aliyah with his family from Los Angeles in 1995, died of a heart attack on Sept. 5, at the age of 49.

L.A. Jews Send Aid Beyond Green Line

By Gaby Wenig
Published on March 14, 2002

For the past three weeks, the theme of Rabbi Elazar Muskin's Shabbat sermons at Young Israel of Century City has been the same. Thundering from the podium, he chastises his congregation for not doing enough to support Israel, and he urges them to pray better and give more charity in response to the horrors of the terror attacks.

Like many communities in Los Angeles, Young Israel of Century City has taken upon itself the support of a large number of charities in Israel, specifically those that fall between the lines; causes that are neither affiliated with the large Jewish fundraising bodies such as The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, nor supported by the Israeli government, despite the urgency of the cause.