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Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting: at around 10:50 a.m. white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon, firing 70 shots into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people: three children, a ...
As of 2008, the Los Angeles area had the largest Persian Jewish population in the U.S., at 50,000. [10] The Iranian American Jewish Federation (IAJF) of Los Angeles is a prominent non-profit organization that has been serving the Iranian Jewish community of Greater Los Angeles for the last forty-one years.
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 Jewish members died off, this power center became off limits to Jews." The Jonathan Club, a likewise prestigious social group, was established in Los Angeles in 1894. [2]
Alamy Los Angeles, Calif., like many other populous cities across the United States, can be a wonderful place to live or an extremely dangerous one, depending on the circumstances and your location.
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 ...
Jewish families across the Bay Area say they've been disturbed by the anti-Israel rhetoric tolerated in K-12 classrooms — and the failure to understand why their kids feel attacked and isolated.
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.
A protest against Jews, held by the Westboro Baptist Church. Antisemitism has long existed in the United States. Most Jewish community relations agencies in the United States draw distinctions between antisemitism, which is measured in terms of attitudes and behaviors, and the security and status of American Jews, which are both measured by the occurrence of specific incidents.