Tag Archives: Los Angeles

Interview with Cantor Dr. Jonathan Friedmann – Adat Chaverim – Community Leader & Education Director, Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles

by | November 5, 2019

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Cantor Dr. Jonathan Friedmann is the Community Leader of Adat Chaverim – Community Leader and the Education Director of the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles. Here we talk about his life, work, and views. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What was family life growing up, e.g., geography, culture, language, and religion or lack… Read more »

Interview with Amy Boyle – Lead, Sunday Assembly Los Angeles

by | September 1, 2019

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Amy Boyle is the Lead at the Sunday Assembly Los Angeles. Here we talk about the Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles and its community, and more. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, let’s start from the top. How did you become involved with some secular community, either early in life or later in life? Also,… Read more »

New York Times’ Flawed Editorial

by | February 21, 2014

The New York Times editorial “Los Angeles’s Costly Lesson for the Vatican” ends, The misconduct of numerous diocesan leaders wielding near total power in the abuse scandal must be confronted in Rome and remedied. Evading this will dim the great hopes for the church that Pope Francis has stirred. Obviously the writer is not talking… Read more »