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Iranian Nessah Synagogue celebrates 30 years and honors founders


Cohan’s new book on Hacham Yedidia Shofet well received by L.A.‘s Iranian Jews


Webcast: NIYP rocks the house with their “K for P” party!


L.A.‘s young Iranian Jews feeling sidelined


Podcast: Young Iranian American Jews show support for U.S. troops


Podcast & photo essay: Boteach vs. Prager at Nessah


Briefs: New chairman at Jewish Federation, AskMusa reaches out to Muslims

Community Briefs

Nessah reaches out to young Iranian professionals

Nessah made history five years ago when it became the first Iranian synagogue in the world to embrace congregational membership.

Public Reactions Are Strong to A Personal Journey

Los Angeles photographer Naomi Solomon capped off her informal summer presentation series "Settlers: A Photographic Journey of the Life and Disengagement of the Jews Living in Gaza" at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills last week, drawing more than 150 people.

The Circuit

Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills hosted an overflow crowd of 600 guests for a community conversation about Jihad, the riots in France and the threats to Israel posed by Hamas and Iran. Sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition L.A. Chapter and the Israel Christian Nexus, the program featured unique insights from noted columnist and historian Victor Davis Hanson, former PLO terrorist and anti-radical Islam activist Walid Shoebat, and French journalist Philippe Karsenty, who revealed the fraudulent story that young Muhummad Al Dura was killed by Israelis at the start of the second intifada.


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Filmmaker Debbie Goodstein has taken to heart the adage, “Write what you know.” Her 1989 Holocaust documentary, “Voices From the Attic,” recounts her mother’s years of hiding in a garret where snow descended through slats in the roof, a baby died and food was scarce.

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New Old Friends

I've recently become close with Abe and Frank, two older guys in my neighborhood. At 90 and 88 respectively, they’re not the typical age of my other friends. At first I wasn’t sure if it was friendship. Maybe they were just humoring me or passing the time. Why would old people want to be friends with me, a 35-year-old?