When Rabbi Kenneth Chasen came to the Leo Baeck Temple for a final interview with the search committee in the spring of 2002, he put together a sample Shabbat service for about 40 people. During the ...

In the midst of a hotly contested election season, dozens of community members representing churches and synagogues from across Los Angeles County met on April 10 at Leo Baeck Temple to discuss the ...

Rabbi Leonard Beerman, founding rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple, renowned for his unremitting pacifism and for speaking out against injustice, died Dec. 24 at the age of 93. Beerman grew the reform ...

The state of Israel isn’t the only Jewish institution celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On Sepulveda Boulevard, in West Los Angeles, the renowned Leo Baeck Temple is celebrating its Jubilee, ...

Yael Rosen, Director of ATZUM‘s Righteous Among the Nations Project speaks with pride of the astonishing accomplishments made in a joint project with the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa. Students ...

UPDATE: Leo Baeck Temple’s attorney, Josh Haffner, told the Journal in a phone interview that the Los Angeles city and county faces allegations “associated with negligence.” “They were aware of a ...

When I found out that an ambitious new music festival in New York, the Chelsea Music Festival, was honoring the 150th birthday of Claude Debussy, I was intrigued to learn that the celebration would ...

After a year’s absence, during which Leo Baeck Temple’s sanctuary and building underwent extensive interior renovations, congregants returned home in a joyous procession on Sept. 9. More than 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German rabbi and Holocaust survivor Leo Baeck feared that Jewish culture at home had been forever destroyed by the ...

“So, Rabbi, last week you wrote about whether Jews believe in angels. “What about saints?” Good question. The general definition of a saint is of someone who is exceptionally holy or close to God. In ...