Moishe House gains up to $6 million to expand

Published on August 14, 2012

Moishe House, the international group focused on building communities for Jews in their 20s, will gain up to $6 million to expand its programming.

Despite neighbor’s complaints, Chabad expansion approved by L.A. City Council

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on July 5, 2012

Chabad of North Hollywood, an Orthodox congregation in Sherman Oaks whose expansion project set off a four-year dispute with a group of neighbors unhappy about the proposed new building’s size, returned to the Los Angeles City Council on June 27 for a second time to seek approval for the plans for their now partially built 12,000-square-foot new home.

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.

Netanyahu’s choice

Published on September 21, 2010

The State of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are fast approaching a fork in the road.

Neighbors oppose Chabad expansion on Pico

By Jane Ulman
Published on September 24, 2008

Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, head of Chabad of California, has a dream -- a block-long, five-story "village" on Pico Boulevard that would provide a girls day school and boarding school along with affordable, safe housing for Holocaust survivors and other elderly people and for teachers with large families.

LACMA gets contemporary

By Tom Teicholz
Published on December 27, 2007

In February, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will unveil the first phase of its renovation and expansion, including the opening of a new building devoted to contemporary art -- the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (that's Broad as in Eli and Edythe Broad, our local Medicis) or, as the acronymists at LACMA have dubbed it, BCAM.

Museum of Tolerance expansion plans controversy continues at City Hall

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 1, 2007

A long-running dispute between homeowners and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance (MOT) and Yeshiva of Los Angeles (YOLA) entered a more formal stage last week, with a hearing by the Los Angeles City Planning Department on Oct. 24 at City Hall.

Briefs: Survey to catalog landmark Boyle Heights buildings to prevent destruction; Chabad expands on West Coast

Published on March 8, 2007

Briefs

Cool Songs? It’s a Miracle!

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on December 8, 2005

The popular Jewish online dating site expanded its search capabilities this month to allow gay men -- and also lesbians -- to seek matches. The Web site now asks people for their gender and the gender they're searching, allowing men to search for men and women to search for women.

Hooray for Holy-wood

By Joel Kotkin
Published on December 8, 2005

But perhaps a better reflection of Los Angeles' overall civic health might be to look at Temple Israel in Hollywood. There, a $20 million new building program -- this being Los Angeles, an expanding parking lot is one centerpiece -- will soon be tearing down aging adjacent apartments to make way for an expanded campus, including a new education complex and chapel.

Where the End Justifies the Beans

By Gaby Wenig
Published on October 30, 2003

Businessman Allen Gochnour is a regular at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on La Cienega Boulevard, and like many of the people who wait in the line that often stretches out the door, he's not just there to grab a cup of java and run.

Big-Screen King’s Legacy of Generosity

By Andrea Adelson
Published on October 2, 2003

Paul I. Goldenberg avoided playgrounds and sports when he was growing up because he lacked athletic prowess. He spent hours in the cool darkness of a movie house.
The Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda honored Goldenberg, 75, owner of La Habra's Paul's TV & Video, as well as others at a gala last month. Goldenberg helped fund the home's newest $14.3 million building, designed to reflect the latest research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia. He pledged another $2 million towards a $52 million nursing-home expansion, which is hoped will accommodate 40 percent of those on the facility's 350-person waiting list.

Emek CelebratesNew Growth Spurt

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on December 19, 2002

"I got my first mild concussion over there," Yehuda Pollack said with a sentimental chuckle, pointing to the new auditorium window at Emek Hebrew Academy.

Judaism Expands in Orange County

By Karen Alexander
Published on August 30, 2001

Jews have lived in Orange County for more than 130 years, but the community has never undertaken such an intense period of expansion as the one currently underway.

In the last year alone, more than 150,000 square feet of new Jewish building space has been added to synagogues and schools around the county. And other major projects are just getting underway. Here is a look at what's going up behind the "Orange Curtain":

Spontaneous Expansion

By Mike Levy
Published on July 12, 2001

Of the seven West Coast Chabad centers scheduled to open this week, five do not even have office space yet. Still, they open.

Skirball at Five

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on April 12, 2001

When the Skirball Cultural Center opened in April 1996, its founding president and CEO, Rabbi Uri D. Herscher, didn't buy the philosophy "If you build it, they will come."