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Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant gigs, a troubling new study by the Anti-Defamation League Wednesday ...
Bet Tzedek was founded in 1974 by a group of Jewish attorneys, law students and community members concerned about gentrification and housing issues living in the Beverly Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles. The group's volunteer attorneys provided free legal representation to low-income residents of Los Angeles.
Temple Israel of Hollywood is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in the United States.Founded in 1926, the congregation initially held services in the Hayakawa Mansion before the first Temple Israel building was established on Ivar Street under the leadership of Rabbi Isadore Isaacson.
StandWithUs was founded in 2001 by Roz Rothstein, a family therapist in Los Angeles whose parents were Holocaust survivors, her husband Jerry Rothstein, and Esther Renzer. [8] She has said the turning point for her came during the Second Intifada , when she observed what she perceived as distorted media portrayal of the conflict, specifically ...
A Los Angeles City Council proposal to give $1 million in security services to Jewish houses of worship, community centers and schools was amended Tuesday to bolster security at spaces of all ...
The B'nai B'rith Lodge on South Union Avenue in Westlake served as a hub for the Jewish community and later as the heart of the labor movement in L.A. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
Ohr Eliyahu Academy, originally called the Emanuel Streisand School of the Pacific Jewish Center, was founded in the mid-1980s in Venice, California. As the school grew, Ohr Eliyahu relocated to a former Culver City public school near Kenneth Hahn State Park. After leasing the site for four years the school purchased the campus for $1.4 million ...
The history of the Sephardic Temple reflects the history of the Sephardic community in Los Angeles. The first Sephardi Jews arrived in Los Angeles in c. 1853.However, significant numbers of Sephardim came in the early 20th century from places such as Egypt, Rhodes, Salonica, Turkey, and other regions of the former Ottoman Empire and elsewhere in the Middle East.