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Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, also called The Sephardic Temple, is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation and synagogue that adopts Sephardi nusach, located at 10500 Wilshire Boulevard, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Established on February 1, 1920 as the "Sephardic Community of Los Angeles", the congregation ...
Johnie's was declared a historical landmark by the Los Angeles City Council on November 27, 2013. [3] On May 5, 2016, the coffee shop was temporarily renamed "Bernie's Coffee Shop" in honor of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The shop retained that name and served as a campaign office until at least June 7, 2016. [4]
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, known from 1862 to 1933 as Congregation B'nai B'rith, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, in the Wilshire Center district of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Founded in 1862, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles. [4] [5]
Landmark downtown Los Angeles hotel 61: Philharmonic Auditorium: July 2, 1969: 427 W. Fifth St. Downtown Los Angeles: Site of former home of Los Angeles Philharmonic; since demolished 64: Plaza Park: April 1, 1970: Between Chavez Ave., Main St., Los Angeles St. and Plaza Old Plaza District
Pacific Jewish Center was established as Bay Cities Synagogue in the 1940s. [5] The congregation was one of several synagogues established in Venice Beach in the 1920s (two others also on the Venice boardwalk). [5] All except this one, and Mishkon Tefilo, [6] had disappeared by the late 1960s.
The congregation first met in a B'nai B'rith hall on Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, [2] then from 1909 to 1925 in a building at 12th and Valencia, just west of what is now the Los Angeles Convention Center. That building then became the Welsh Presbyterian Church, and was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1977. In 2013 ...
Rabbi Daniel Epstein shows Prince William a 17th century Torah scroll as he visits the Western Marble Arch Synagogue on February 29, 2024 in London. Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.