This past Saturday, March 22, our Jewish Federation brought the community came together for our Seventh Annual Every Person Has a Name – our 25-hour Holocaust Commemoration and Vigil, supported once again by the City of Pasadena (and the steps of Pasadena City Hall).
As we have done in t…
The following is an Op-ed our Executive Director wrote about this weekend's 7th Annual Every Person Has a Name Holocaust Commemoration and Vigil. This piece was published in the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, and Pasadena Now.
Over the last dozen years,…
This past Friday, as a community partner, I was invited to visit the National Council for Jewish Women's (NCJW) new distribution center set to open the next day in Highland Park. As I looked around at the displays and the goods available for those adversely affected by the fires, I experienc…
For this week's column, I thought I would share some of the remarks I made during this past Sunday's 30th Annual Meeting:
As many of you may know, I began working at our Jewish Federation on March 1, 2005, making this past Saturday the start of my 21st year here. When I first started, I…
As the news broke and information has continued to pour out last week regarding the status of the remains of the Bibas, especially the children, to say that I was horrified, by the grotesque way Hamas chose to murder Ariel and Kfir Bibas, with "their bare hands", would be an absolute underst…
