Amanda Marks Serves The Moment Through Her Passion For Creativity
I’ve always seen the world as a canvas — not blank, but already ripe and wrought with art just waiting to be seen, admired, and listened to. Around…
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Elianna Bernstein Tackles Food Insecurity with Serve The Moment
Before the pandemic started, I had plans to leave Los Angeles to start a teaching credential program in Baltimore, MD. By the time the…
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Jessie Duke Serves the Moment by Planting Her Roots at Shemesh Farms
Serve the Moment* found me at the most perfect time. Moving through severe physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual burnout meant I was coming face to…
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Persian Sunrise, American Sunset
Since 2018, the Federation’s Y&S Nazarian Initiative has partnered with The Braid (formerly known as Jewish Women’s Theatre) to continue to elevate the voices…
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Volunteer to Make a Difference – Serve The Moment
The pandemic has widely and disproportionately impacted L.A.’s — and the country’s — most vulnerable residents. We’re looking for amazing young adults ages 18–29…
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Serving The Moment at Shemesh Farms
When the pandemic first started, the Jewish community — from coast to coast — responded with Serve The Moment (STM)* to give opportunities to young adults…
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Our Federation’s Response to Jewish Young Adult Food Insecurity
If you or someone you know needs food, our Federation’s NuRoots wants to help. One in five people in Los Angeles — including Jewish…
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Daniella Kahen Interviews Her Grandfather Mehdi Bobof for NuRoots’ Roots Radio
“When Khomeini came to power, they arrested Mr. (Habib) Elghanayan who was the head of the Iranian Jews and they killed him. After this…
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Celebrating The In/Between – NuRoots’ Citywide Sukkot Festival
A celestial soundscape, a dance for rain, the scent of s’mores. These were a few of the diverse possibilities of The In/Between, NuRoots’ first…
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