Ari L. Noonan

As Assistant Director of Israel Education for the Jewish Federation, Rabbi Micah Miller has a unique job: making friends for Israel in the non-Jewish school world by leading educators on an annual trip to the Jewish state.

With his seventh wartime mission to Israel scheduled after Sukkot ends, Rabbi Kahn looked back on his work since Oct. 7, 2023.

The Matriarchs of Jewish history — Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah — have officially gained equality with the Patriarchs in Conservative Judaism, thanks to Rabbi Joel Rembaum, the emeritus rabbi at Temple Beth Am.

When asked to define himself, Rabbi Sholom Rodal, the voluble leader of the Chabad of Mt. Olympus limited himself to 32 words: “You have to do what works for you, your personal style, your capabilities."

“I never thought I would be in a pulpit,” Rabbi Gavriella Kornsgold said a year and a half after joining Sinai Temple, one of the community's largest synagogues.

Her title might read "Rabbi Cantor,” but Temple Judea’s Alison Wissot knows that’s backwards.

Rabbi Brett Kopin has been teaching at the Milken Community School for more than three years,

Keeping interest in the war alive and headlining the urgency of Israel’s needs drive him every morning.

In a Jewish community as warm and supportive as the one we are blessed to know in West Los Angeles, no family celebrates a joyful milestone alone.

Growing up, Valley Beth Shalom’s Assistant Rabbi Yael Aranoff dreamed of two contrasting careers — either becoming a veterinarian or a rabbi.