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March 5, 2010

HIGHLAND AVE. TEMPLE DENIED PERMIT, AGAIN

Suzan Filipek

DENIED. Residents are waiting for the city to enforce the ruling.

The city has ruled that the Orthodox Jewish temple at Highland Ave. and Third St., Etz Chaim, cannot hold religious services. “It’s not all over, but it’s a milestone,” said attorney Michael Wright. He represents the Concerned Residents of Hancock Park. The group sued the congregation after it built an 8,000-square foot home/temple on the property corner.

At the hearing last month Renee Weitzer, chief of staff for Councilman Tom La Bonge, also spoke against the appeal.

Rabbi Rubin, of Etz Chaim at 303 S. Highland, argued ethnic discrimination was in force and for the needs of the congregants—Holocaust survivors, the elderly—for a neighborhood temple.

The decision by the Central Area Planning Commission ruled against an appeal by the congregation on Feb. 23. The decision upholds a Zoning Administrator’s ruling last year, which denied the temple a conditional use permit to operate as both a home and a temple holding bar mitzvahs, weddings and other events in the single-family area.

Neighbors first took the congregation to court years ago. Several lawsuits and appeals at the city and state level have been filed since the temple began operations on the property in 1996.

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