Los Angeles, CA

California, USA

Los Angeles, in Southern California, is the second most populous city in the United States. It was founded as a Spanish pueblo in 1781 on the site of the Tongva village of Yaanga, passed to Mexico after 1821 and to the United States in 1848, and was incorporated in 1850. Its Jewish community dates to the 1860s, when the congregation now known as Wilshire Boulevard Temple was founded, and Los Angeles County today has the second-largest Jewish population in the country. The city was also an early centre of American Zen: Nyogen Senzaki opened a meditation hall there in the 1930s, and Taizan Maezumi founded the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1967.

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