Join noted author and tour guide, Oscar Israelowitz, on this delightful one-hour zoom program. Highlights include:
• Spanish California and the Spanish Inquisition from the Old World.
• Discovery of Gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848.
• Historic wooden synagogue buildings in Stockton, San Leandro and San Diego.
• Great Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco in 1906 destroys Temple Emanu-El.
• Fairfax Community Mural.
• Jewish movie moguls and their early beginnings in Eastern Europe.
• First “talking” motion picture, “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson and Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt in 1927.
• Temple Sinai in Los Angeles with its noted Rabbi David Wolpe, was designed by architect Sidney Eisenshtadt.
• House of the Book in Simi Valley was used as a stage set in the filming of “Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country.”