Los Angeles’ First Rabbi With around 200 Jewish families living in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, Joseph Newmark, the lay-rabbi and Judaic scholar of the community, convinced Rabbi Abraham Wolf Edelman to move to Los ...

The First Hanukkah Stamp In October 1996, Israel and the United States issued the “Hanukkah Stamp,” the first stamp to be jointly issued by the two nations. The stamp designed by Hannah Smotrich featured a ...