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Wilshire Blvd Temple Closes Its Main Sanctuary — Will Its Congregants Notice?

Only 2% of Wilshire Blvd Temple’s membership of 33,000 attend services there weekly so the overwhelming number of its Jews won’t be affected by this closure. Synagogues tend to be built and maintained by the money of those who rarely … Continue reading

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‘Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California’

Here is the Amazon.com page for the book and here is the website for the author Frances Dinkelspiel. We did this interview a couple of weeks ago via email. I told Frances to only answer the questions she found interesting. … Continue reading

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Wilshire Blvd Temple Rebills

Email Picture Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times Rabbi Steve Leder stands inside the sanctuary of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. The temple, which seats 1,800 people, was built in 1929. It has begun a multimillion-dollar expansion and renovation … Continue reading

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