Yeshiva University High School - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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MITZVAH PROGRAM pfJ Ij ' jpi l U ' i6J A LABOR OF LOVE A wrinkled, hunched old woman, lips turned down in a melan- choly frown, passes by, making her tedious progress down the hall Few notice her, almost no one pauses to smile or say o simple hello A lonely man lies, immobile, in the stuffy, lifeless hospital room He speaks to no one. no one speaks to him He tries to eat. he tries to sleep With all the medical contraptions attached to him. he cannot Yeshivo University has a keen sensitivity to the functioning yet forgotten people ot our community Uniting the young and old goes as for back as the days ot the Torah. where Moshe Ra- baynu, ZT L. told Pharaoh . We will go with our young and with our old This is what Yeshiva University IS striving for as it sends its senior girls to various old oge homes and hospitals every Friday There, by speaking with the people, we try to bring warrrith to an otherwise cold atmo- sphere, at the same time bringing a sense of fulfillment to our- selves At the hospitals where we volunteer, we also find this sense of fulfillment by visiting and serving the patients, helping the nurses carry out their duties, filing in the records offices, and delivering messages While these duties may seem trivial, they are certainly very meaningful to the people in the hospital as well as to our- selves We would like to thank you. Veshiva University, for giving us this opportunity to learn about humanity and do Chesed simulta- neously ■jr n3rn,;n ?i .18 n:i n-nK tlos 3 ' tin -i y . TC37 mj-nc 3 Tn JP n-iunin m ' JKcni ' T»r ... .iK:n nic ' j ininV n i3 ' • •« nii -nnoK 1(1 V ' j-i .imol -n- ' n .Tjcp ' n- ' nr «n ' IK nny ,jino3 ' i TTinn mm to ' D .niViic ' JK nr=nr; i Ty .T-noo nii , ' n1nr n K ' l- .niiic nisiMr ,n ' ir ' 73 miia .p ' ln ' j o--i inra Ti ' - ' nrtiinpD mocD tt.k dips .ik3 ' ? »ry2 ,18 •? !- .■•V--3C3 nyapjr msii:: m iy: ' t:; c ■J ' 7 nai 17n nnvc D -i -ri! ' c .k ' jc DViy -i »n3cno T2TC3 -nr,i7 ..ni ' :: i ' c ' :■ 01-73. ' otk icpV ,T3Cnc:ii ,m:mjr. dto; ,t; ' t. niicp ri« .i-ipi-i - ] -; n nj 3 p ' tr,.i :.n:! Til ,mpa ' ■33 1 . c ' r

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BREED STREET SHUL BEGINNINGS We were standing on the steps of o weathered brick building It wos just knew what we were looking at the historic Breed Street Shul Very few ol tlourishing existence or the great impact it has had on Los Angeles Jewry The side door of the shul was opened, and we went m None of us had expected the moiesty and timeless beauty of the shut ' s interior We gazed in owe at the impressive wooden stairways that drew our eyes upward to the lofty, arched ceilmg (nside the sanctuary, handcrafted antique chan deliers softly illuminated the Bimah. and the Aron Kodesh emanated a special feeling ot kedushah Murals of religious Motifs and soft nature scenes enhanced the walls Stained glass windows ot vibrant hues depicted each of the twelve tribes Through a small hole m one of the windows a pigeon flew in, seeming somehow at home as it circled above the long wooden benches and slowly ascended to a familiar perch in the ceiling ledge Although the awe-inspinng beauty of the shul is timeless, the passoge of years has scattered the community that created it Originally established in the early 1 ?00 ' s, Congregation Talmud Torah, under the inspiring leadership ot Robbi Osher Zilberstem, z 1, served the growing needs of the flourishing Jewish population in Boyle Heights the peak of the shui ' s existence, it was not unusual to see one thousand people attending Shabbos services The new generotion began moving in different directions, some to the Volley and s Yovneh Hebrew Academy and, indeed the entire Los Angeles Jewish community a ( to the Fairfax area transporting the seeds of their nch heritage The creofic ; know it today has its roots m on ogmg building in Boyle Heights

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On Tuesday, January 6th, Nazis desecrat- ed ttie outside walls of the Yeshiva Univer- sity Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holo- caust Studies at 9760 West Pico Boule- vard. They drew swastikas, other signs of the ' SS, and German slogans like Wake up Jews! The SS is coming, and Death to the Jews. The front of the building was disrespectfully sprayed with the words; Simon Is The Murderer. To protest this outrage, approximately 250 people gathered in front of the build- ing at noon. Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean of Yeshiva University and the Simon Wie- senthal Center for Holocaust Studies, spoke to reporters stating that this was obviously not the work of neighborhood teenagers, but rather a disgraceful display done by Nazis, m ■vi. . . J - ' '