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This building on the corner of Kester and Sylvan in Van Nuys is operated by Dare Management

Dare’s website describes their founder as an “Aggressive professional and determined businesswoman, [and] a prime example of a devoted mother, flawlessly combining her family duties with her professional, social and community responsibilities.”

Once again, the San Fernando Valley Historical Society Photo Collection provides an image into a lost world. This time the subject is the 1964 lighting of the menorah for the Hanukah celebration at Congregation Rodef Sholom in Van Nuys.

A “Google” search failed to come up with any “Congregation Rodef Sholom” in Van Nuys. There is, however, another Congregation Rodef Sholom in Marin County, CA. “Founded in 1956, it’s a Reform Jewish Congregation located on the Lonee C. Hoytt Jewish Campus in San Rafael, California, and is affiliated with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.”

In a generous and open minded Bay Area spirit, the synagogue website proclaims: “We are welcoming and inclusive, and support the development of friendships and bonds without regard to our members’ national origin, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or physical/mental abilities; and we accept and encourage a wide range of ideas and expressions of Judaism.”

We need another Rodef Sholom here in Van Nuys.