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Once the most active Jewish venue in Los Angeles with over 260 events over 18 months, JACLA stood out as a place where Jews of all observance levels came together in a completely kosher venue who's sole purpose was to benefit the community. Open all hours, any person who needed a place to chill or somebody to talk to or learn Torah were welcome. On Thanksgiving evening I drove by JACLA's building and saw a homeless person sleeping in front of the door, and I began to cry. It ...hit me so deeply that this place that benefited so many is lifeless and deathful. 1 out of 40 homeless will die on the street in LA this year - is this man in front of JACLA's former location going to become a corpse? It's a disgrace, absolutely disgraceful. Why? What happened? Why has nearly all of Pico-Robertson sunk so low? The perfect storm of rising cost of living combined with jealousy and competition between synagogues for donors divides the community. The people of Pico-Robertson are not the problem - leadership is the problem. In my opinion, the problem is too many rabbis standing on soapboxes with their hands out instead of a community of Jews standing together hand-in-hand. What's the solution? If you ask me, the solution is organizations like JACLA that are not centered around one rabbi but a common purpose of benefiting the community - rich and poor, regardless of level of observance. See more

WAKE UP! This should infuriate ALL MY FRIENDS. I pray this post gets shared, and shared again. Please, don't let it happen again. 1936 Nazi Germany in 2019 United States. I'm sharing this a 2nd time. You can't sob about 875 churches in France being burned in 2018 and ignore the explosion of public, media and governmental anti-Semitic support. Ignoramuses believe Trump is anti-Semitic when the people he loves most in the world (daughter and grandchildren) are Orthodox J...ews. He recognizes Israel like no other President in US History. Here this video documents it here and now sanctioned at public universities and paid for with US grants. They no longer fear being exposed as anti-Semites. That is a horrifying marker of a dangerous path we as Jews know all too well has never skipped a generation. 3800 years of anti-Semitism has never skipped a generation in the most powerful countries of their time. Here we are, today. See more

A group of 9th graders and their teacher visiting from Tel Aviv were taking selfees outside our windows so I inquired. The teacher said, "everybody has heard of what you do and this was a destination on our trip." WOW - is that cool or what? B''H

OMG, this really hits home. I am sad but also VERY angry. I knew Ari Fuld. We had many private conversations. He was a supporter of JACLA and I was a supporter of him, especially when he travelled to the US to speak about those terrorist bastards. Ari was a hero and an honorable man. BDE

What are you doing Saturday night? 10 pm (Motzi Shabbos) Daniel Lobell is performing his comedy show (only $15)! http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5420?tab=tickets

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I'm REALLY looking forward to Friday night. I've really missed you. With G-d's help, we will all have a wonderful experience.

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