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News For Iranian American Jews, Trump’s talk of regime change stirs hopes of return
From Great Neck to Los Angeles, Iranian Jews in exile cautiously dream of a homecoming
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Fast Forward Conservative rabbinical school Ziegler pauses admissions, signaling broader overhaul
The LA-based seminary has begun to distance itself from the Conservative movement under new leadership
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News She’s a democratic socialist who affirmed Israel’s right to exist. Can she be LA’s next mayor?
Nithya Raman thinks she can win over the city's Jewish voters. Step one: Convince them she’s not Zohran Mamdani.
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Fast Forward Longtime dean of Ziegler School retiring as Conservative seminary plots new course
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson will continue teaching; AJU ponders 'multidenominational' future
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Fast Forward He sold a house to Justin Bieber. Now this LA investor has given Chabad $100M to build one of the world’s largest Jewish centers.
The announcement comes at a moment when many Jewish institutions are under financial strain
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News ‘From a shtetl to a diaspora’: After the fire, a Palisades synagogue forges through a year in exile
One year after the Palisades fire, Kehillat Israel's congregants — and its rabbis — await their return home
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News She helped rescue the Torahs from their burning synagogue. A year later, the congregation is thriving.
One year after a wildfire destroyed its building, the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center is recovering without losing members — or momentum
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Opinion A year after the LA fires, the lesson is clear: Our greatest disasters are often self-inflicted
It's a lesson that the city's German Jewish exiles learned many decades ago
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