Temple News

For many, summer brings with it butterflies of excitement for special activities: family vacations, afternoons at the pool, outdoor movie nights, community activities that abound across Los Angeles, and summer camp! It shakes up the rhythm of our calendars, and invites us to reconnect with people we enjoy. As you consider meaningful and unique opportunities for your summer, the Karsh Family Social Service Center encourages you to use this time away from your routine to volunteer and serve those in need. 

This Mother’s Day weekend, Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps hosted its third annual Camp Kulam, a retreat for families with young children with special needs. Seventeen families from far-ranging Southern California areas came together at American Jewish University’s Brandeis-Bardin Campus for a weekend of fun, relaxing, and connective programming.

Each One Help One has always been the fund that helps us subsidize families who cannot afford the full cost of Temple membership. However, this fund does so much more than that—and there isn’t a single member of our congregation whose life hasn’t been touched in some way by this annual campaign. With a new name that represents its scope and impact, The Temple Fund will fulfill this same mission of supporting membership assistance, comprehensive state-of-the-art security, special events and programs, and lifetime learning opportunities for all—youth to seniors. 

Audrey Irmas Pavilion donors describe their enthusiasm for Wilshire Boulevard Temple and how they envision the Audrey Irmas Pavilion will serve the community.

One of the weaknesses of our tradition is that the narrative of women is often absent from our Torah. This is because most of our sacred texts were written by men as reflections of their worldview and experiences. That makes the story we find in Parashat Pinchas all the more astonishing.