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Reb Dovid Yitzchok Wallk, Z”l

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Reb Dovid Yitzchok Wallk of Boro Park was niftar Sunday evening, 17 Sivan, at the age of 61, after a difficult illness. Reb Dovid, a highly respected member of the Gerrer kehillah and alumnus...

This weekend, join us to resist in the streets at Families Belong Together rallies...

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Dear readers: The news this week has made us sick to our stomachs — massive immigrant detention camps, the Supreme Court’s Muslim Ban and JANUS decisions, Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court, and...
Memorial candle. Credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

Los Angeles Theater Critic, San Diego Jewish World Contributor Cynthia Citron Dies at 89

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Cynthia Wynn Taylor Citron, born September 16, 1934, in Boston, died November 11, 2023, in New York, of pneumonia and old age. For nearly 20 years she was a well known theater critic in Los...

“Yiddish Kiddush: A Day of Learning and Music” en Los Angeles, CA

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Saturday, April 30, 2016 YIDDISH KIDDUSH: A Day of Learning and Music Congregation Ahavat Torah in association with CIYCL Dvar Torah:  Miri Koral, CIYCL Director and UCLA Lecturer in Yiddish Live Yiddish Music and Sing-Along: Cindy Paley Services with Rabbi Miriam Hamrell...

Hurricane relief fund

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In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the Jewish Federation quickly opened an emergency fund to support the Houston community and others devastated by the storm. Then Hurricane Irma hit, leaving a path of destruction...
Boris Pahor, June 20, 2015. Credit: Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia Commons.

Oldest concentration-camp survivor dies at age 108

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The oldest known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, Boris Pahor, died on Monday in the Italian city of Trieste at the age of 108, reported Deutsche Welle. Pahor was born on Aug. 26, 1913, in...

Congratulations to the “Heaven in Auschwitz” Screening in The Lot, La Jolla, CA. ticket...

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The winners will be contacted by email. The winners are: Lisa Travis Sylvia Rosenthal Rosalva Martha-Patten Paulina Gómez Martín Martínez Heaven in Auschwitz (Mexico, 2016) Documental. 75 min B | Directed by Aaron Cohen WHEN: August 8th,...
Soraya Nazarian (center) and her daughter, Dr. Sharon Nazarian (right), and WIZO president Esther Mor (center left) and WIZO chairperson Anita Friedman (left) at a ceremony dedicating the new day-care center in Tel Aviv. Credit: Courtesy.

WIZO dedicates new day-care center in Tel Aviv to Los Angeles philanthropists

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The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) opened a new day-care center in Tel Aviv sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation. Named the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Day Care and Early...

Hebrew school curriculum celebrates diversity of Jewish Culture

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Hebrew teacher Chana Zinstein, of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, recently developed a new curriculum that explores the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazi holiday minhagim, and how Jews from both Israel and...

Book to place history of Kansas Jews in regional context

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LAWRENCE — The history of Midwest Jews is an area ripe for scholarship, and the University of Kansas is well-placed to be a center of such study, according to a researcher who has begun...