As a public institution, we are committed to serving the community of greater Los Angeles, the state of California, and the global academy and public. Our faculty and doctoral students give public lectures in schools, synagogues, and mosques in Los Angeles and work with K-12 students and teachers, and produce timely, popularly-accessible scholarship. We contribute to popular media covrage on topical affairs, from music to minority politics, Holocaust rememberance to the reconstruction of the deep past. UCLA’s Moroccan Jewish Studies affiliates contribute to community events such as the marking of the 50th anniversary of Em Habanim, the 100th year anniversary of The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, and the first Morocco Day in Los Angeles. We continue to work to expand our partnership with the Moroccan Jewish community of Los Angeles by organizing scholarly events and public scholarship that benefit the community. We hope to continue to build oral history archives on the community in Los Angeles and other cities in the United States especially in New York and Florida.