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orthodox
Rabbi David Hartman’s learned students remember their rebbe
Jewish Journal
February 13, 2013
The Jewish community reflects on the life of late Rabbi David Hartman.
Swastikas marked on three Sherman Oaks homes
Ryan Torok
March 15, 2012
At 11: 30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, Jennifer Niman pulled out of her driveway on Leghorn Avenue in Sherman Oaks. Talking on her cell phone, the longtime San Fernando Valley resident was heading to her job as a real estate agent at Prudential California Realty.
Jewlicious offers pluralistic fun aboard the Queen Mary
Ryan Torok
February 29, 2012
“The Reform service is going crazy, the Conservative service is going crazy. Orthodox [service] is huge,” Josh Kaplan, a Jewlicious board member, said as he walked past the concierge to the Jewlicious merchandise booth.
UCLA Orthodox program raises funds, but need continues
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2011
More than 100 students, alumni and parents raised $23,000 for UCLA’s JLIC (Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus) during a Nov. 18 fundraiser, contributing roughly a quarter of the $100,000 that the program now needs to raise annually to ensure its continuing presence on the Westwood campus.
Synagogue dispute heads to court
Jonah Lowenfeld
October 12, 2011
The trouble at Shaarei Tefila, one of Los Angeles’ oldest Modern Orthodox synagogues, began in 2008 with a disagreement over whether one member’s brother should be allowed to be called up to the Torah. Over the last three years, however, that dispute led to a competition between two groups of members for control over the struggling 77-year-old Beverly Boulevard congregation.
Orthodox students fighting to keep presence at UCLA
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
February 24, 2011
A program that is credited with creating a vibrant Orthodox community at UCLA needs to prove by the end of March that it can raise $80,000 annually to ensure its future on the Westwood campus. The Orthodox Union (OU) has paid the salaries for two professionals who founded and have been running Shabbat programming, Torah study and daily services at UCLA for ten years, and now OU (http://www.ou.org/) says Los Angeles needs to put up a share of the cost, as other communities have done to support the program at 15 campuses across North America.
Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas and secular universities
Dennis Prager
December 1, 2010
The Wall Street Journal recently published a column about ultra-Orthodox (Charedi) Jews in Israel who do not work for a living. Sixty-five percent of ultra-Orthodox men ages 35-54 do not go to work. Instead, they study Torah while demanding increasing amounts of money from the taxes paid by Israelis who work for a living. The author of the column, Evan R. Goldstein, wrote: “Voluntary unemployment has become the dominant lifestyle choice for [Charedi] men. And even if there was a desire to work, [Charedi] schools leave students unprepared to function in a modern economy.”
Neighbors oppose Chabad expansion on Pico
Jane Ulman
September 25, 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.
Mayor: Building inspectors need better training, sensitivity to block another Yom Kippur showdown
Tom Tugend
September 24, 2008
Korobkin, the Yavneh spiritual leader, said he was very pleased with the mayor\’s recommendations and that the fault for last year\’s incident lay mainly in the way DBS was structured, as well as a certain lack of sensitivity.
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