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.

Pacific Palisades Chabad preschool denied lease extension

By Jane Ulman
Published on July 8, 2008

An eight-to-one vote by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Board -- along with a unanimous vote by the Conservancy Advisory Board -- last night soundly defeated Chabad of Pacific Palisades' appeal to temporarily extend the lease for its preschool site at Temescal Gateway Park from September 2008 through January 2009

Chabad, Getty and neighbors square off over Palisades school plan

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 5, 2008

Everything went smoothly until April 2, when Getty Trust attorney Lori Fox informed Cunin that Chabad does not have the right to approach the building via a private Getty service road -- which Chabad disputes

Poway resident’s soccer and shul dream hits roadblock

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 5, 2007

As a child in Israel, soccer was Menachem Shoval's religion and Torah was his playbook. Devoutly committed to both, he eventually wanted to own enough land to build his own soccer field and, if possible, a synagogue in the Orthodox fashion of his native Yemen.