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BUILDING LIVES

at WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE

The renewal of our historic Sanctuary was just the beginning. For what is a beautiful sanctuary without a beautiful community and powerful mission? Who are we as Jews if we do not inspire and educate the next generation of our children and reach out to our neighbors, whom the Torah commands us to love as we love ourselves?

The Building Lives Capital Campaign to develop and complete the Erika J. Glazer Family Campus moves forward now with the exciting new construction of the Karsh Family Social Service Center along

Sixth Street. Groundbreaking takes place in the summer of 2014; the Center will open in winter 2016.

Through the Karsh Center we will reach out to our low-income neighbors, providing a food pantry, dental and eye care, legal aid, and mental health services in Spanish, Korean, and English. Hundreds of Temple members will volunteer, and the heart of Los Angeles will know us to be a kind and caring people. This new building will also include parking for 450 cars and a rooftop sports complex for our students, congregants, and neighbors.

At the same time, we begin the renovation and restoration of the newly named de Toledo Family Historic School Building and the renovation of our 1962 school building. When both are completed in the fall of 2015, our growing Erika J. Glazer Early Childhood Center and Brawerman Elementary School East will have permanent homes with state-of-the-art classrooms, science labs, libraries, and music and art studios.

We have a long-term higher purpose to motivate and inspire us. Together, we are building lives.

Our Story Continues

“We have a long-term higher purpose.”

We are honored to serve as campaign co-chairs for this dramatic phase of our Building Lives Campaign.

Take a close look at the vivid architectural renderings in this booklet and imagine yourself, your family, and friends in what will be among the most beautiful and meaningful places in Los Angeles.

Our Erika J. Glazer Family Campus is poised to become not only a vibrant hub for Jewish life, serving the spiritual needs of a resurgent Jewish community on the Eastside, but also an oasis of care and comfort to our underserved neighbors. It’s going to be amazing!

We are proud to support our Temple and to help accomplish its mission. By making a philanthropic investment, each one of us becomes a catalyst for transformation–for ourselves, for our city, and for future generations. We invite you to join us. Thank you!

Dear Friends

Linda and Steve Brown

Susan and Scott EdelmanCo-Chairs, Building Lives Capital Campaign

Dear Congregants,

Along with our farsighted board of trustees, I took a hard look at our fading but still beautiful Temple on a worn-down block in Wilshire Center/Koreatown and wagered that you could imagine what I could imagine: that Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the core of our great city had not only a proud past but a bright future. I could imagine the eternal light of our Sanctuary shining on an unparalleled place of beauty for worship, celebration, culture, and public discourse. I could imagine the sounds of children in study and at play. I could imagine a thriving Jewish community in service to reinvigorated neighborhoods in the heart of Los Angeles.

We have already seen the magnificent result of our completed Sanctuary. Together we now take the next leap. Make a gift today and make our people, our mission, and our future stronger. Make a real difference.

With deepest gratitude,

Rabbi Steven Z. Leder Pritzker Chair of Senior Rabbinics

Betsy, Aaron, Steve, and Hannah

“I’m very proud of my family’s past and present commitment to the Temple. We have had b’nei mitzvah, confirmations, and weddings and have attended Religious School, Brawerman, and Camp Hess Kramer. We have sat in Row T in the Sanctuary for five generations.”

Janet Dreisen Rappaport

Far left: Teddy and Heather Karatz;center: Lindsey, Matthew, and Levi(front) Karatz; center front to farright: Clara, Juliette, Elizabeth, and Thomas Faraut. Inset: Herb and Janet Rappaport

Dreisen FamilyLegacy

“As a parent, it’s thrilling to see our small school grow and become even more vibrant. I am also so happy that my children will gain an understanding of how a community can provide not only for its own but for those in need all over the city.”

April Peveteaux Goldman

From left: April, Esmé, Judah, and Aaron Goldman. Esmé is a Grade 2 student in Brawerman East’s charter class; Judah starts Kindergarten in fall 2014.

Goldman Family

Left group: Vicki Schiller, Liesa Schiller, and Aiden Schiller (now age 10); right group, standing: Gary and Maskit Schiller; seated: Erna Lovice and Frank Schiller holding Adam Schiller (now age 8). Aiden and Adam currently attend Brawerman West.

“At our son Adam’s brit milah I said to everyone assembled that the same words written on the walls of Factor Chapel (‘Know before Whom you stand’) would have been inscribed on the walls of my family’s now-empty village synagogue in Bohemia. We carry on their heritage at Wilshire Boulevard Temple.”

Gary Schiller

Schiller Family

This is our place

Rabbi Harvey Fields, z”l, foresaw that building schools at our Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus would create the anchor for Jewish life on the Westside. Our remarkable Mann Family Early Childhood Center, opened in 1998, focuses on recognizing the competence and creativity of young children. Brawerman Elementary School West, now known as one of the most outstanding K-6 schools in Los Angeles, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Our future scientists and artists, computer experts and writers become true mensches at our schools and go on to succeed at the finest middle schools, high schools, and universities.

Brawerman students reading the Torah Great friendships begin here.

This is our place to learn, give back, celebrate, belong.

Author Malcolm Gladwell in conversation in our Sanctuary

At our Erika J. Glazer Family Campus we’re now building equally inspiring schools to meet the needs of our growing young families. The Erika J. Glazer Early Childhood Center and Brawerman East are currently in temporary facilities while awaiting the completion of this next phase of the Building Lives Campaign. Both schools remain modest in size, but once their new facilities are open, they are sure to become a powerful force for excellence in education throughout the city.

Beyond its great schools, the Glazer Campus will soon be a thriving hub for Jewish life from morning till night. You will be able to volunteer at the Karsh Family Social Service Center with your family, go for a run, play basketball or take a yoga class in our rooftop athletic facilities, check your messages or chat with friends in a contemplative garden, attend a dance performance, concert, or class, and join us for services that open your heart and soothe your soul.

Grade 6 Religious School students (with parents) wearing the tallitot they made in class

Coming soon!School buildings on Harvard Blvd.

Central Walkway and GardensOur two school buildings

will reopen in fall 2015 with these new features:

The Erika J. Glazer Early Childhood Center

• State-of-the-art Classrooms• Challah-baking Kitchens• Art Studio• Library• Toddler and Nursery School Playgrounds• Nursery School Courtyard

Brawerman Elementary School

• State-of-the-art Classrooms • Science Lab• Technology Center• Art Studio • Library• Hebrew Language Center• Playgrounds

Shared amenities

• Faculty Workroom and Lounge

The new four-story building along Sixth Street (right) will include:

We’ll also add or improve these campus features:

• The Karsh Family Social Service Center (see next page)

• Parking for 450 cars

• Rooftop Sports Facility for our students, congregants, and neighborhood youth programs

• Campus Security Office

• Information Technology Center

• Central Walkway

• Outdoor gathering spaces, seating, and gardens

View north toward Sixth St.

Please note: Drawings are subject to change.

Karsh Family

Jeffrey, Michael, Bruce, Martha, and Katie

A key mission of our Temple, and of Judaism itself, is to help repair our world (tikkun olam). We will measure our future success not only by the number of neighbors our congregants serve but by the number of congregants who serve our neighbors.

For Martha and Bruce Karsh, this dual mission is central to their philanthropy. Their gift to the Building Lives Campaign to name the Karsh Family Social Service Center

will ensure the engagement of our congregation and the betterment of our neighbors.

“The Temple sits in a unique multicultural community,

made up largely of immigrants,” Martha observes, “and we felt that reaching out to our neighbors was a really important responsibility of our Temple. Our families were all immigrants just two generations back. It just felt like the right thing to do.”

Including “Family” in the center’s name is essential to Martha and Bruce, who met as students at University of Virginia Law School and have been married for 34 years. It not only reflects the name of their foundation and the values they want to pass on to their children but also, Martha says, “communicates that we’re all part of this Wilshire Boulevard Temple family and the larger Los Angeles family, and families help one another.”

The Karsh Family Social Service Center

• Dental Care• Eye Care• Food Pantry• Legal Counseling• Mental Health Care• Other Tikkun Olam Programs

[ Ground Floor ]

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

- Leviticus 19:18

ואהבת לרעך כמוך

Top right: A young congregant filling grocery bags in our Food Pantry

Community ConnectionsA beautiful communal space truly fulfills its purpose when it is continually filled by its community. We will continue to open our magnificent Sanctuary not only for services but to the entire city for literary and musical luminaries like recent guests Malcolm Gladwell and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as emerging talent, seasoned thinkers, and soaring celebrations. We look forward to hosting all of Los Angeles with offerings that enlighten the mind and uplift the spirit. This is our community.

Right: City-wide dedication of our renewed Sanctuary

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Deferred/Planned GivingA planned gift can be your lasting legacy, a key part of the story your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will tell about you many years from now. Examples of planned gifts: a charitable bequest, will, IRA or retirement plan, life insurance, charitable remainder trust, and charitable lead trust.

Help Us Reach Our Campaign Goal

$40 Million and 100%

Questions / More InformationCall our Development Office at (213) 835-2165 wbtla.org/buildinglives

In order to complete this project we must raise the last $40 million, and we will get there only with 100% participation. We hope everyone at the Temple will make the most generous gift possible. A gift to Building Lives is a gift to your congregation, your family, and your community.

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