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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.
Long overshadowed by the more prosperous San Francisco Jewish community, L.A.'s Jews commissioned the congregation's first building, an impressive brick Gothic Revival style synagogue built in 1873 at the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. [13] It was described by the Los Angeles Star as “the most superior church edifice ...
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Rabbi Zeldin was raised in New York City, the son of an Orthodox rabbi. [4] Ordained at the Reform movement's Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1946, he came to Los Angeles in 1953 as western regional director for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) and as dean of the College of Jewish Studies in Los Angeles, a UAHC program that was absorbed into Hebrew Union College in 1954.
On April 4, 1972, Selma Kay, Jerry Gordon, Jerry Small, and Bob Zalkin were the only people who came to a weekly Wednesday night meeting at Los Angeles's Metropolitan Community Church. [7] [8] They were all Jewish, and Selma asked, "Why don't we form a temple with an outreach to the gay Jews?" [7] The others agreed, and Rev. Troy Perry offered ...
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)
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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.