Embracing the Yanov Torah

Embracing the Yanov Torah

Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times

Kushner and Herman during the hand-over, which came as Jews this month commemorate the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when Germans rampaged against their Jewish neighbors, destroying synagogues, killing dozens and rounding up thousands for deportation to concentration camps.

Kushner and Herman during the hand-over, which came as Jews this month commemorate the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when Germans rampaged against their Jewish neighbors, destroying synagogues, killing dozens and rounding up thousands for deportation to concentration camps. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Kushner and Herman during the hand-over, which came as Jews this month commemorate the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when Germans rampaged against their Jewish neighbors, destroying synagogues, killing dozens and rounding up thousands for deportation to concentration camps.