Los Angeles

L.A.’s Fabulous Jewish Refugee Soccer Team

In the 1960s, a group of Israeli expats and European concentration camp survivors formed Maccabi Los Angeles, part of the largely ethnic Greater Los Angeles Soccer League. As a recent article in Vice recounts, over the course of a decade Maccabi became one of the top U.S. soccer teams, and only one of two teams […]

Possible arson attack destroys rabbi’s car in Los Angeles

The fire is being investigated by the Los Angeles Fire Department’s arson division and police also have increased patrols in the area.

In L.A.’s Koreatown, Wilshire Boulevard Temple bets big on the past for its future

When complete, the historic synagogue’s restoration and expansion, which will include a new social service center, will have cost nearly $200 million.