Los Angeles’ Breed Street Shul was saved from oblivion by the City Council, which voted unanimously to acquire the 75-year-old synagogue and turn it over to the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California within a year. When the shul was founded in 1923, with movie mogul Louis B. Mayer as its first president, it was the religious center of Boyle Heights, which was known as “the lower East Side of Los Angeles” and was home at the time to 90,000 Jews.
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The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
