Boyle Heights is a neighborhood of almost 100,000 residents east of Downtown Los Angeles in the City of Los Angeles, California. The district has more than 20 public schools and 10 private schools.
The March of the Living is an annual educational program which brings students from around the world to Poland, where they explore the remnants of the Holocaust. On Holocaust Memorial Day observed in the Jewish calendar, thousands of participants march silently from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex built during World War II.
The Jewish Virtual Library is an online encyclopedia published by the American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE). It is a website covering topics about US-Israel relations, Jewish history, Israel, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Judaism.
Eric Michael Garcetti is an American politician serving as the 42nd and current Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 election and won reelection in 2017. A former member of the Los Angeles City Council, Garcetti served as council president from 2006 to 2012. He is the city's first elected Jewish mayor, its youngest mayor in history, and its second consecutive Mexican American mayor.
Hanna Zoey Tur is an American broadcast reporter. As a broadcast reporter, and commercial pilot, Tur created the Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter and then–wife Marika Gerrard. The Los Angeles News Service was the first to use an AStar helicopter in a major city for the coverage of live breaking news, and the first to televise a high-speed police chase. Other noteworthy reporting included the attack on Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and finding the crashsite of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771. Tur was also the first to locate and televise O.J. Simpson's slow-speed chase in 1994.
Shaun Toub is an Iranian American actor who is perhaps best known for his roles as Yinsen in 2008's Iron Man, Farhad in the 2004 movie Crash, Rahim Khan in the movie The Kite Runner and Majid Javadi in the Showtime TV series Homeland.
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles is an independent, nonprofit community weekly newspaper serving the Jewish community of greater Los Angeles, published by TRIBE Media Corp. The Journal was established in 1985. As of 2016 it had a verified circulation of 50,000 and an estimated readership of 150,000; it is the largest Jewish weekly outside New York City. TRIBE Media Corp. also produces the monthly TRIBE magazine, distributed in Santa Barbara, Malibu, Conejo, Simi and West San Fernando Valleys.
Nikki Finke is an American journalist, blogger, publisher and writer. She is presently consultant to Penske Business Media LLC and senior editorial contributor for PBM run by media owner Jay Penske. She also is founder and CEO of Hollywood Dementia LLC and its website HollywoodDementia.com for showbiz short fiction. She was the founder, editor-in-chief, and president of Deadline Hollywood, a website with original content consisting of her and other veteran showbiz journalists' reporting and commentary on the business of the entertainment industry. The website was formerly known as Deadline Hollywood Daily. In December 2011, she was given the additional title of editorial advisor of parent company Penske Media Corp. Finke has been called the "most feared, despised, and uncompromising journalist in Hollywood."
Milken Community Schools, colloquially Milken, is a private Jewish high school and middle school. It is located on Mulholland Drive in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest Jewish day schools in the United States. Long affiliated with Stephen S. Wise Temple, a Reform congregation, the school is officially non-denominational, and became independent from the temple in July 2012.
The media of Los Angeles are influential and include some of the most important production facilities in the world. As part of the "Creative Capital of the World", it is a major global center for media and entertainment. In addition to being the home of Hollywood, the center of the motion picture industry, the Los Angeles area is the second largest media market in North America. Many of the nation's media conglomerates either have their primary headquarters or their West Coast operations based in the region. Universal Music Group, one of the "Big Four" record labels, is also based in the Los Angeles area.
de Toledo High School, formerly New Community Jewish High School and informally known as "New Jew", 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, the school adopted its new name as of July 1, 2015.
Jewish Life Television (JLTV) is a 24-hour, full-time TV network delivering entertaining Jewish–themed programming. Currently led by Tom Daniels, the network was founded in 2007 by Phil Blazer, a longtime journalist and producer of programming for the Jewish community. In the United States, JLTV is available in over 40 million households through DirecTV and various regional cable systems, in addition to offering a live feed of its programming for free on the Internet.
Israeli Americans are Americans who have Israeli citizenship either by descent or naturalization. Reflecting Israel's population, while the majority are Jewish, they also include Muslims, Christians and Druze.
The Matzo Ball is an annual Christmas Eve nightlife event and party held in a number of major cities in the United States and Canada targeted primarily at young Jewish singles and organized by the Society of Young Jewish Professionals.
We Are In America is a free monthly magazine tailored to Jewish Israelis living in the United States, and focuses on culture, community events and the Jewish Israeli lifestyle. It is written in Hebrew. The magazine was founded in 2006, and the first issue was published in August 2006. The magazine is published by Eyal Shemesh and its editor-in-chief is Ayala Or-el.
The Story of the Jews is a television series, in five parts, presented by British historian Simon Schama. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in September 2013 and in the United States on PBS in March and April 2014.
Levon Marashlian is an American historian, professor, and scholar. His scholarly work has largely focused on Armenian, Russian, and Middle-Eastern history. He has participated in various debates, lectures, and conferences throughout the world. He is currently a professor of history at Glendale Community College.
History of the Jews in Los Angeles — the history of Judaism and the Jews in Los Angeles, Southern California.
The Israeli-American Council is an American nonprofit organization that represents and serves more than 250,000 Israeli-Americans across the country. Its mission is to preserve and strengthen the Israeli and Jewish identities of future generations, strengthen the American Jewish community, and strengthen the relationship between citizens of the United States and the State of Israel. As of 2017, the IAC is the fastest-growing Jewish organization in the world.
