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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 ...
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.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is a local Jewish publication that is most noted for its interviews of Jewish celebrities and important figures in the Los Angeles Jewish community; [59] as well as its features in local Jewish culture and events as well as news coverage of events affecting the community as well as other areas of the ...
In 1945, Rabbi Osher Zilberstein of Breed Street Shul opened the city's first Jewish parochial elementary school. [3] When Israel was established as an independent nation in 1948, Breed Street Shul was the site of a solemn ceremony in which the new flag of Israel was flown for the first time in Los Angeles. [2]
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.
Academy for Jewish Religion (California) American Jewish University; B. Bavel (restaurant) Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; ... Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles;
It is the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles exclusively operating in its original location. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In July 2023, Rabbi Alex Weisz became the Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Israel, making him the first Gen Z rabbi serving as the spiritual leader of an American synagogue.
Temple Beth Am was founded in 1935 as the Olympic Jewish Center. [2] It is the third oldest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles. [3] Jacob Pressman served as its rabbi from 1950 to 1985. [2] [4] Under his leadership, the synagogue took its current name, Temple Beth Am in 1957. [2]