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Founded in 1972 as the world's first lesbian and gay synagogue, today BCC is an inclusive community of progressive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual Jews, and our families and friends.

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Sunday, July 12, ONE LA Public Action! BCCers Helping to Create an Economic Stimulus Plan that Works! 3pm to 5pm.

Please join Rabbi Edwards, Jerry Nodiff, and BCC’s One-LA organizer, Elan Babchuck in attending this event along with elected officials, clergy from around the city and 1,000 other One LA members to work with each other on our collective agenda including public education, health care, workforce development, and foreclosure prevention. Invited [...]

Cantor Juval Porat Returns to the BCC Community

We are very pleased to announce that Juval Porat, who visited with us last year, will return to the BCC community in July.  Juval, the first German-trained cantor since before World War II, will co-lead his first service as an officially invested cantor on July 24.  He will be joined on the bimah [...]

Israeli Civil Rights Activist, Amos Gil, to Speak on Civil Rights in Israel, July 13 at BCC

Join us on July 13 from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. as Amos Gil speaks on “Human Rights Under Siege: The Struggle for Civil Liberties in Israel.”  Mr. Gil has been an active member of the civil rights community in Israel for over fifteen years and was the first Executive Director of the Association for Civil [...]

BCC Member Davi Cheng on Panel Discussion

The following is an article by journalist Mikey Hirano Culross posted June 18, 2009 on Rafu Shimpo, the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News.  This piece covers a discussion panel held Thursday, June 11, 2009 on “The Shifting Attitudes on Multicultural Families and Intermarriage” at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy which included, Grace [...]

Members: Join Us at BCC’s Annual Congregational Meeting, July 19, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

All members are encouraged to attend.  There will be elections for officers and board members, a discussion of next year’s budget, and updates on happenings at BCC.

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