Hail, Caesarstone!

By Elyse Glickman
Published on December 20, 2012

As California’s real estate market continues its recovery and spring remodeling season is poised to start, many homeowners are once again looking for enduring ways to rejuvenate their living spaces and add value to their homes.

Pioneers

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 1, 2012

The roof of Yuval Bar-Zemer’s condo is a very nice place to be. It’s mid-summer, and a grape arbor thick with leaves and hard green fruit winds along one side of it. There’s a pond, fig trees, several raised beds filled with herbs and vegetables, and, just around the corner, a swimming pool.

Iranian-Jewish community split on Namvar sentencing

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 12, 2011

Ezat Delijani, real estate developer & philanthropist, 83

By Karmel Melamed
Published on August 30, 2011

Ezat Delijani, a real estate developer and a leader in Los Angeles’ Iranian Jewish community, died on Saturday, Aug. 27 following a long battle with cancer. He was 83.

BARGAINING DOS AND DON’TS

By Annie Korzen
Published on July 7, 2011

Writer discovers California ‘Gold’ in banking ancestor Isaias Hellman

Published on December 10, 2008

Isaias Hellman was arguably the single most powerful and influential Jew in the United States from the last quarter of the 19th century until his death in 1920

Nathan Shapell, real estate developer and philanthropist, 85

Published on March 11, 2007

Obituaries

Prefab housing gets ‘fab’

By Sam Hall Kaplan
Published on February 22, 2007

Prefab indeed has the potential to lend itself to being "green" by using materials more efficiently, wasting less space, and generally creating structures that are lower maintenance.

R.E. Hard Crash? Soft Landing? Bursting Balloon? Leaking Balloon?

By Marc Ballon
Published on August 31, 2006

The Jewish Journal spoke to Cohen about the recent reversal in the local housing market.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

By Avi Schnurr
Published on June 1, 2006

Like most L.A. residents, we've moved many times over the years. From Santa Monica to Culver City, Marina del Rey and then Westwood, it's not easy to pick up and move 10 or 20 miles with everything you own. At least, that's how we felt until a little over a year ago, when we made the 7,582-mile move to Jerusalem.

Negev + Galilee = Israel’s Future

By Batsheva Pomerantz
Published on January 19, 2006

"Real Zionism is to encourage all to move to the Negev and the Galilee," said Transportation Minister Meir Sheetrit, adding that the key to developing the peripheries lies in improving transportation to the center of the country. Efficient transportation, he said, will change the periphery into suburbia.

Chabad Brings Brooklyn to L.A.

By Gaby Wenig
Published on April 1, 2004

Amid the kosher restaraunts, Judaica stores and storefront synagogues on a particular stretch of Pico Boulevard, a little piece of Brooklyn has just been built.

OK, the new three-story, 47,000-square-foot brown-brick building is hardly little, but it is straight out of 770 Eastern Parkway, the Crown Heights address that houses the central Chabad center and the headquarters of their former spiritual leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, otherwise known as "the Rebbe."

Q & A With Simha Lainer

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on December 11, 2003

"If you have a piece of fruit," said Simha Lainer, "throw away the skin and eat only the good part inside." Such a wise and optimistic statement could fit right in with the list of "zayde-isms" that Lainer's granddaughter, Lisa, is compiling for the family in honor of his upcoming 100th birthday.

Making L.A. Real

By Tom Teicholz
Published on October 23, 2003

This weekend the story of Los Angeles, and its future, is all about one building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Critics have already hailed our new symphony hall as a triumph of design, determination and a marriage of form, function and acoustic feng shui. But more significantly, in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles is finally acknowledging Frank Gehry's central role in our culture. One building, as Gehry taught us with Bilbao, can change a city (even as the destruction of buildings, such as the World Trade Center, can change not only a city, but a nation -- even the world).

The Circuit

By Michael Aushenker
Published on May 8, 2003

Becker General Contractors' Sandy Becker was happy to be at what is known in the real estate and construction business as a "sunriser" -- an early morning get-together.

Quotable and Charitable

By Michael Aushenker
Published on May 23, 2002

"I collect various thoughts, proverbs and sayings that I find mostly in magazines," said Stanley Black, who turns 70 in October. "My father started to collect them, and I have continued with them."

Home Is Where the Shul Is

By Anita Chabria
Published on July 12, 2001

As Los Angeles housing prices continue their upward climb, members of Orthodox and Conservative communities are having a tougher time finding affordable houses to buy within walking distance of their synagogues -- a must for observant Jews who don't drive on Shabbat.

Time to Buy?

By Thomas M. Kostigen
Published on March 15, 2001

You're rich. You're eyeing that million-dollar dream house. Is now a good time to buy it?

Stars Searching for the Perfect Home Sing ‘My Sharona’

By Michael Aushenker
Published on November 19, 1998

"If you were my client, you'd have six hours of my time.

Community

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on April 2, 1998

While many note the westward journey of Jews into areas such as Calabasas, West Hills and Agoura, few realize there's a small renaissance going on in the East Valley.