Keeping You Safe Around The High Holidays

September 12, 2023

Ahead of the High Holidays that begin this week, a network of Jewish security experts and religious leaders hosted several webinars to help prepare for the season.

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Our Town Hall on Antisemitic Violence

February 21, 2023

Our Federation convened the community for an evening of powerful discussion in response to the recent antisemitic hate crimes that have rattled our sense of safety and self-expression. At YULA Boys High School, we brought 400 community members together to meet with elected officials, law enforcement, and Jewish community leaders.

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Combatting Antisemitism With Love & Jewish Wisdom 

December 23, 2022

Nearly a dozen billboards carrying messages denouncing antisemitism have sprung up across Los Angeles County, with organizers hoping that their messages of love can counter the spread of hate speech. 

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Combatting Antisemitism Together

December 21, 2022

Watch as our Federation convened and welcomed new Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a wonderful and diverse group of elected officials and leaders. Together we celebrated the joys of Hanukkah and stood together to fight antisemitism and all forms of hate. 

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Combatting Antisemitism 

October 27, 2022

Watch as our President & CEO Rabbi Noah Farkas speaks to CNN about combatting antisemitism

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Providing Jewish Summer Camp for Ukrainian Refugees 

September 8, 2022

For camp counselor Yakiv Berin, it isn’t just another day at sleep-away camp. It’s a welcome distraction from the horrors of war he and his family fled in Ukraine.

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State Budget to Support Jewish Camps, Holocaust Initiatives

July 27, 2022

Our Federation made the news thanks to the amazing advocacy work of our Civic Engagement team! Together they helped secure funds that will go directly to help aid Jewish summer camps, strengthen security at local Jewish institutions, and more.

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The Launch of our Landmark Study of Jewish Los Angeles

June 29, 2022

The Jewish community of Los Angeles has grown in both size and diversity, the 2021 Study of Jewish LA found. Since the last comprehensive study of Jewish Angelenos in 1997, the number of Jewish households has increased by 25% to a total nearing 300,000.

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A Special NuRoots Passover Experience for Young Adults

April 19, 2022

After two years of virtual Passovers, NuRoots is going back to basics for this year’s Collective Escape.

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Our President & CEO's Humanitarian Mission to Ukraine Border

March 17, 2022

Rabbi Noah Farkas, the President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, is part of a delegation on a humanitarian relief trip to Poland at the Ukraine border.

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Ukraine Fundraising Campaign and Border Trip

March 15, 2022

Even in Los Angeles, it's not difficult to identify with the pain of the Ukrainian people. For Jews, the Russian invasion is all too familiar and at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, fundraising efforts to help refugees have already brought in over $1.5 million.

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Our Response to the Crisis in Ukraine

February 28, 2022

There are so many people in Southern California with loved ones in the conflict zone. Some, like Anastasia Shostak, have family in both Russia and Ukraine.

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Our Response to the Crisis in Ukraine

February 25, 2022

Several hours after Odessa awoke to explosions Thursday morning, Avraham Wolff, the city’s chief rabbi, got a call from a nearly 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. The man was so distressed he could barely speak.

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The agenda for new L.A. Federation CEO Noah Farkas: Building trust and diversity (eJewish Philanthropy)

February 3, 2022

Just six days into his new job as CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Rabbi Noah Farkas had found some time to make his office his own: Along with 30 still-packed boxes of books, the Plano, Texas, native made room for a Dallas Cowboys mini-helmet, a baseball he caught at a Dodgers game and a rock decorated by one of his kids to read “Abba rocks 2015.”

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CSI Keeps Our Synagogues and Community Safe (Spectrum1 News)

January 25, 2022

In the last few years, Jason Dice has been to more than 180 synagogues across Los Angeles. Dice recently scoped out a congregation in Beverly Hills.

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Press Conference on Security with ADL & Law Enforcement (CBS LA)

January 24, 2022

After last weekend’s hostage standoff at a synagogue in Texas, local and federal authorities held a news conference Friday morning in Los Angeles to address safety concerns for local synagogues.

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CSI Addressing Rising Crime in Los Angeles (Jewish Journal)

December 16, 2021

On December 1, paroled felon Aariel Maynor allegedly killed philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, wife of music executive Clarence Avant and mother-in law of Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO, in her Beverly Hills home. He then allegedly burglarized a second home and accidentally shot himself in the foot.

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Shining A Light on Antisemitism (CBS News)

December 7, 2021

The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles held its annual Community Leaders Hanukkah Candle Lighting at Grand Park Friday morning. Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rabbi Noah Farkas, the incoming president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and Capri Maddox, executive director of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Department, spoke at the 9 a.m. ceremony.

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Our President & CEO on the Antisemitic Flyers in Beverly Hills (Fox News)

November 28, 2021

Multiple Beverly Hills residents woke up on the first day of Hanukkah to find anti-Semitic flyers in their yards, police said. Beverly Hills police received a call around 6 a.m. from a resident who reported finding a flyer containing "hate speech."

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