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The Bohemian Club was founded in San Francisco in 1872 as a journalists' social group, [1] but it grew to become a refuge for some of the most powerful men in American business and politics. The similarly august California Club was founded in Los Angeles in 1888 when "at least 12 of the 125 founding members were Jews." But "as the original ...
Eric Webber: [180] First openly gay male to serve as the President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (c. 2013) Firdaus Dordi: [53] [54] First Zoroastrian male judge in Los Angeles County, California (2017) Ricardo García: [181] First Latino American male to serve as the Public Defender for Los Angeles County, California (2018)
Congregation Emanu-El on Sutter Street (1866–1926), San Francisco. The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.
In 1936 the Los Angeles Jewish Community Council was incorporated, the present-day Jewish Federation Council. [28] In 1940 Los Angeles had the seventh largest Jewish population of all the cities in the United States. Large numbers of Jews began to immigrate to Los Angeles after World War II. 2,000 Jews per month settled in Los Angeles in 1946 ...
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.
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)
Estella Dooley (1958): [241] First African American female lawyer to work for the San Francisco Public Defender's Office (c. 1970s) Joanne M. Garvey (1962): [242] First female to serve as the President of the Bar Association of San Francisco (1981) Mary C. Morgan (1972): [243] First openly LGBT female judge in San Francisco County, California ...
"In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to ...