a plot before weeding and one after By BERNIE BELLANIn previous issues we reported on changes the Shaarey Zedek had made to the maintenance of its...
By BERNIE BELLANImagine my surprise when, despite being told that the Jewish Foundation would not disclose how much funding specific organizations have received from the Foundation...
Shalom Residences’ Micah Kraut & Rabbi Yitzchok Charytan Ed. note: As part of our continuing effort to report on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has...
Dr. Lorne Brandes By JON VAN DER VEEN To further understand the challenges and changes resulting from the pandemic, The Jewish Post & News has reached...
32-year-old Ari Hanson By MYRON LOVESeventeen years ago, a Gray Academy high school student by the name of Ari Hanson began doing volunteer work for the...
Wedding scene in Plaszow concentration camp By MARTIN ZEILIG When Hadasa Bau and Clila Bau Cohen received notice earlier this year that their parents, Josef and...
Beth El Synagogue in L.A. May 30 By BERNIE BELLAN If you’ve been reading our paper for a long enough time – or looking at this...
Abe Simkin in 2012 – age 90 With the death of Abe Simkin last month in California, the last surviving member of his generation of the...
Outdoor Kabbalat Shabbat service at Etz Chayim By MYRON LOVEIt is most definitely an understatement to say that this will be a yom tov like no...
Peacefully, with dignity, and his family by his side, Abe Simkin passed away at Del Mar, California on July 22, 2020 at the age of 98....
Rochelle “Cooky” Elkun Passed away Friday, July 24, 2020 after a brief but heroic battle with leukemia. Cooky was a wonderful devoted daughter, sister, aunt, great...
Athlete, aesthete, early adopter, stylish dresser, party-thrower, voracious reader, world traveler, prodigious note writer, award-winning gardener – these are but a few of the many ways...