Tag: Los Angeles
LA county’s district attorney launches interfaith advisory board
The office of LA County District Attorney George Gascón announced on March 14 the formation of its first Interfaith Advisory Board, which includes five rabbis.
The participants include Rabbi Sharon Brous, senior and founding rabbi at IKAR...
LA synagogue presidents resign after covering up Israeli hostage posters
The HAMAKOM synagogue in Los Angeles conducted town hall meetings on Tuesday in response to the outrage that had arisen in the community over images that had circulated showing that posters of Israeli hostages hung in the building...
‘LA Times,’ accused of Jew-hatred in past, calls for ceasefire in editorial
Although it stated that "no one should harbor illusions about Hamas," the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times wrote on Nov. 16 that "it has become impossible to distinguish between Israel’s decidedly non-surgical operation against Hamas...
Manouchehr Bibiyan, Iranian entertainment producer and ‘proud Jew,’ dies at 90
Manouchehr Bibiyan, a pioneering Iranian-American Jewish entertainment producer and political activist died on Aug. 27 in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old.
Bibiyan became Iran’s first and most successful modern pop-music recording producer, having...
Los Angeles-based Jewish philanthropist Elissa Czuker dies at 53
Elissa Czuker, who with her husband, Edward Czuker, donated to many prominent Jewish and political causes, died on Aug. 25. She was 53 years old.
The mother of nine was active in the Young Israel...
Farewell, Los Angeles
In less than a month, I will be packing up and returning to Israel, after concluding a mission of four years in Los Angeles. It was a fascinating experience to serve in the city...
Gal Gadot to become first Israeli actor with Walk of Fame star
Gal Gadot will next year become the first Israeli actor or actress to be honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
“This is unbelievable. I’m so, so grateful and thankful and humbled,” said Gadot...
Artist depicts disarmingly beautiful Holocaust art
At first blush, the recent, photorealistic paintings of Los Angeles-based Jewish artist Robert Russell look inviting, almost sweet. A lamb turns its head to look back over its shoulder in one, and in another, a crouching...
Gene Simmons of Kiss fame to unveil mural of Polish Catholic Holocaust hero
Artists 4 Israel is expanding its series of murals honoring Righteous Among the Nations. It’s doing so with a “kiss” this time.
The collective, which enlists artists to combat antisemitism and anti-Israel bigotry through their work,...
Los Angeles Jews honor Muslim scholar of Moroccan Jewry
With the red carpet rolled out and Moroccan music filling the Em Habanim synagogue in Los Angeles last week, more than 400 of the city’s Moroccan and Sephardic Jews gathered to honor Moroccan Muslim...