Source: Los Angeles Times
On February 13, 1999, the Los Angeles Times featured Temple Beth Torah, the oldest Jewish Congregation in Ventura County, CA. The Reform temple is headed by two rabbis, Lisa Hochberg-Miller and her husband Seth Hochberg-Miller, where Lisa oversees community outreach programs and Seth oversees the temple's Torah school. The temple engages in programs with other churches to help house the homeless, offers a Lifetime Learning Course for adult mitzvah students, and recently hosted its second annual All Faiths Women of Vision Conference. Lisa mentioned that she has been well received as a rabbi: "Although I still may be many people's first woman rabbi, I've faced very little discrimination because of it." Speaking about her congregation, she stated, "I think they benefit from a woman's style." Membership in the temple contains a full range of ages that creates a "steady whir of activity."