Moving and Shaking

By Ryan Torok
Published on May 1, 2013

Cantor Tifani Coyot of Temple Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills has been named the successor to Cantor Evan Kent at Temple Isaiah. Kol Tikvah announced that Coyot had taken the job with Isaiah in March. She will take over for Kent in July, by which time Kol Tikvah hopes to have a replacement.

Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

By Michelle K. Wolf
Published on March 8, 2013

Temple Judea to hire Rabbi Joshua Aaronson

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 2, 2013

Members of Temple Judea in Tarzana concluded a yearlong search for a new senior rabbi by voting to hire Rabbi Joshua Aaronson on Jan. 16. The spiritual leader of Temple Har Shalom in Park City, Utah, Aaronson will join Judea, a 1,000-member-family Reform congregation, on July 1, replacing Rabbi Donald Goor.

Published on June 14, 2012

On Friday night, June 15 JewishJournal.com will be airing a live stream of Temple Judea's Shabbat services.

Temple Judea education director heading to Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Published on March 21, 2012

Rabbi Bruce Raff, Temple Judea’s longtime director of education, is leaving the Valley Reform congregation at the end of the 2011-2012 school year for a rabbi educator position with Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s religious school, according to a Feb. 28 e-mail to Temple Judea congregants.

Voters vs. Sherman, Berman

By Bill Boyarsky
Published on March 1, 2012

Always interested in the gritty and unpredictable side of participatory politics, I dropped in on Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, both of whom are vying to represent the newly reconfigured 30th congressional district, as they each hosted community meetings at San Fernando Valley schools last week.

Two reform clergy to take their liberal spirit to Israel

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on January 18, 2012

Rabbi Don Goor of Temple Judea and Cantor Evan Kent of Temple Isaiah announced to their congregations on Jan. 11 that they will be moving to Israel next summer. Both will leave behind successful careers in Los Angeles as they jump into the rich but contentious world of liberal Judaism in Israel.

Rethink, rebuild, rebirth

Published on August 19, 2011

Inside the small chapel at the center of the inner courtyard at Temple Judea, light streams in through a laser-cut metal veil that envelops the building. Hebrew letters decorate the veil in random order.

“Please, Rabbis, Stop Telling Us It’s Bad to Steal”

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 29, 2009

Groups, Shuls Fundraise for Tsunami Aid

By David Finnigan
Published on November 13, 2005

Off the Bimah: A Concerted Effort

By Ellen Jaffe-Gill
Published on February 19, 2004

With her slender figure, long, shining strawberry-blonde hair and big hazel eyes, Alison Wissot looks more like a stage ingénue than most people's conceptions of a cantor -- not surprising, since that's what she was 10 years ago.

Wissot's cantorial career is off to a brilliant start: Less than three years after graduating from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music in New York, she is filling the largest Reform cantorial pulpit in the San Fernando Valley, the 1,300-household Temple Judea in Tarzana and West Hills.

Deaf Synagogue Relocates

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on April 13, 2000

Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf (TBS) has a new home. The congregation, which for 35 years was located in Arleta, is now renting space at Temple Judea in Tarzana.