Category Archives: Rabbis

Who’s The Best West LA Rabbi For A Bar Mitzvah?

Comments: * In the Brentwood, Beverly Hills neighborhoods of Los Angeles the most popular Rabbi for Bar Bat Mitzvahs and increasing rare weddings is an ethnic Chinese lesbian Rabbi married to a black American Muslim convert who attends the events … Continue reading

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Politics & The Clergy

America’s religious leaders are even more politically divided than the rest of us https://t.co/UX8DC7Hebi — The New York Times (@nytimes) June 12, 2017 More than any other group of clergy, rabbis choose to live in white neighborhoods. Orthodox rabbis are … Continue reading

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L.A. rabbis arrested at ICE protest

Jewish Journal: Several area rabbis were among more than 30 protesters arrested April 13 in downtown Los Angeles for an act of civil disobedience to call attention to the treatment of undocumented immigrants. The group was taken away after blocking … Continue reading

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Rabbi Stephen Wise Was No Stranger At The Party

Henry Makow writes: Rabbi Stephen Wise was the most prominent American Zionist and Jewish leader from the 1920’s until his death in 1949. On the Rockefeller-PBS website he is commemorated as “one of the greatest fighters for democracy and human … Continue reading

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Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz Z’tl

The rabbi I most looked forward to meeting when I moved to Los Angeles in March of 1994 was Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz of the Chai Center, formerly of the Westwood Chabad synagogue that served UCLA. In his lectures, on his … Continue reading

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