Ryan Torok
Jewish Journal
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Newsom Launches Holocaust Educational Council at Museum of Tolerance
California Governor Gavin Newsom visited the Museum of Tolerance on Oct. 6 to announce the launch of the Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education. → Read More
Pico-Robertson Synagogue and Kosher Restaurant Targeted with Vandalism
Young Israel of Century City (YICC) is reeling from a May 28 incident involving an unidentified individual throwing a cinderblock at its synagogue’s window. → Read More
Who Are the Jews On Joe Biden's Cabinet?
United States President-elect Joe Biden has assembled a team of Cabinet nominees with strong ties to the Jewish community. Antony Blinken, Biden’s nominee → Read More
Chabad and Yeshiva University Offer Torah Class for High Schoolers
Chabad and Yeshiva University are offering a Torah class high school students can take for college credit. Beginning in the fall of 2021, high school → Read More
JFLA Executive Director Discusses Loan Program for Looted L.A. Businesses
“It’s extremely gratifying to be able to help people when they are in such times of crisis,” JFLA Executive Director Rachel Grose told the Journal. → Read More
Hospital Workers Flood Suicide Crisis Line With Coronavirus-Related Calls
Dr. Lorna M. Breen, an emergency room doctor in New York who had been treating COVID-19 patients, died by suicide on April 26. While there has been a lot → Read More
Keeping Hospitals Funded Is Essential Work, Explains Medical Claims Expert
As many businesses in New York closed because of the spread of the coronavirus, Helene Chabin, 84, a hospitals medical claims expert, assumed she, too, → Read More
What's Happening: Virtual Shabbats, Book Club and Festival
Because the community has now been ordered to shelter in place to halt the spread of the coronavirus, the Journal has compiled a list of virtual happenings. → Read More
L.A. Jewish Crisis Resource Guide
This guide will constantly be updated. Keep checking back for additional information and email ryant@jewishjournal.com if you'd like your organization, → Read More
Coronavirus Increases Anxiety Around Passover Travel
There are many highly popular inclusive Passover vacation experiences with kosher food, entertainment and seders. → Read More
The Shared Leadership Qualities of Purim’s Queen Esther and Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was well versed in the story of Esther and emulated her. → Read More
What's Happening: Tu B’Shevat Celebrations, Democratic Primary Forum
FRI FEB 7 Shabbat Shira Celebrating 220 years of Reform Jewish music and history, Temple Isaiah and Beth Chayim Chadashim, merge their choirs to welcome → Read More
BJE and BTS Galas, Bat Mitzvah Gift Bags
Beit T’Shuvah (BTS) held its 28th annual gala at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 26. The event, which raised more than $2.2 million for the Jewish → Read More
Community Leaders Respond to the ‘Deal of the Century’
On Jan. 28, President Donald Trump stood alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and unveiled the “deal of the century” → Read More
Norah Weinstein: Supporting the Needy, One Baby at a Time
Norah Weinstein has come a long way since her corporate litigation days in New York. As the co-president of the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Baby2Baby, → Read More
Rich Singer: Helping Young Athletes in Need
Rich Singer and Travon Dugar Muhammad’s Sole Brothers nonprofit donates gently worn athletic shoes to athletes in need. The seeds for the organization → Read More
Jeannine Nadel Sefton: Pro-Israel Sephardic Philanthropist
Jeannine Nadel Sefton has used her connections in the travel industry to support Jewish organizations in Los Angeles, and in doing so has carved a name → Read More
Naama Haviv: A Passion for Feeding the Underserved
When Naama Haviv joined the staff of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, she finally found what she’d been searching for. “It turned out I should have → Read More
David Sacks: A Street Rabbi for the People
David Sacks is not an ordained rabbi but says he learned from his greatest teacher, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, that one does not need the official → Read More
What's Happening: Hip-Hop Shabbat, ‘Sacred Sounds,’ Dani Shapiro
FRI JAN 31 "Shabbat Against Gung Violence” Fourteen months after 12 of his fellow patrons were massacred by a lone gunman at a country and western bar in → Read More