The low-budget rescue team

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 10, 2011

At 10:32 on a Tuesday morning, exactly seven minutes after he ran out the door of his real estate management office, Steve Fleichman, a volunteer with Hatzolah of Los Angeles, pulled an ambulance up to the front of the Goodwill shop on Beverly Boulevard. Other Hatzolah responders’ cars were already parked outside. Nobody from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) had arrived yet.

Hatzolah volunteer confronted

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on February 2, 2011

A Beverly Hills Police officer pointed his gun at a Jewish emergency medical technician who was responding to a car crash on Olympic Boulevard on Jan. 20. The EMT, a volunteer with the Hatzolah of Los Angeles Jewish emergency rescue team, was rushing to the scene of a two-car collision in his own car, which bore flashing, roof-mounted red-and-white lights and was blaring a siren.

Don’t call him super-rav

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on December 22, 2010

“Is Rabbi T a crime-fighting rabbi?” That’s what a student asked Pressman Academy Rav Beit Sefer (head school rabbi) Chaim Tureff at a recent question-and-answer session.

Exploding Knives, and Other Hazards of Kashering

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on March 25, 2009

Let me just start by admitting that I probably didn’t really need to put the knife directly on my burner. But it was the first time in a very long time I was kashering anything, and I had conflicting guidance from my rabbi and my mother, and I thought I needed to drop a hot metal object into my hot water urn to make it kosher for Pesach (I was totally wrong. Do not try it at home.).

Honoring Hatzolah, Anjelica Huston, Sheba

By Danielle Berrin
Published on April 4, 2008

Honoring Hatzolah, Anjelica Huston, Sheba

Letters

Published on September 29, 2005

I support Rabbi David Wolpe's position entirely ("We Must Condemn Heartless Bilge," Sept. 16). Rav Ovadiah Yosef has made Israel look very bad.

Southland Responds to Relief Needs

By David Finnigan
Published on September 8, 2005

Prominent rabbis have been urging their congregations to give generously to Hurricane Katrina relief funds, the most prominent being one set up by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, which had raised more than $500,000 by early this week.

Hatzolah Expands Emergency Service

By Julie G Fax
Published on August 5, 2004

After midnight one Sunday last December, Motty Stock found his wife, Freda, unconscious on the bedroom floor. He picked up two phones and simultaneously called 911 and Hatzolah, an all-volunteer emergency first-response service.

Your Letters

Published on June 19, 2003