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Initially conceived as a branch of the New York City-based Academy for Jewish Religion, it soon became independent. [1] In its first years the school was housed in a small temple in West Los Angeles, [2] later moving to the Yitzchak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA. It ordained its first three rabbis in 2003, and provided a means for ...
First organized as the Highland Park Hebrew School Association in 1923, the congregation completed construction of its Spanish Colonial Revival style building in 1930, at a cost of $4,078 (today $74,000). [2] It is the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles exclusively operating in its original location.
The complex was designed by the architectural firm of Brent, Robbins and Bown. The ark, which contains a Torah rescued from the Holocaust, was designed by artist Joseph Young, who also designed the Triforium in downtown Los Angeles. [5] One of Kleinman's rabbinic interns from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion was Denise Eger.
It has, since its founding in 1986, helped students explore their Jewish roots or prepare for conversion to Judaism. [1] Based primarily in Los Angeles, and throughout the United States, the Miller Program is available to people of any backgrounds find a home in the Jewish community. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, was the first national Jewish organization in the United States to pioneer Jewish day schools within the country. It started to develop these in 1944, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] during World War II and at a time when the United States was at war with the Axis Powers and Europe's Jews were ...
Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walkout to protest antisemitic incidents at the Woodland Hills, California, school on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024 in Los Angeles.
de Toledo High School, formerly New Community Jewish High School and informally known as "New Jew", [2] is a private Jewish high school in the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, in the western San Fernando Valley, California. One of the largest Jewish day schools in the United States, [3] [4] the school adopted its new name [5] as of July ...
The Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University is a Jewish retreat located since 1947 in the northeastern Simi Hills, in the city of Simi Valley, California. [1] Formerly known as the Brandeis-Bardin Institute , it is used for nondenominational summer programs for children, teens, and young adults.