Synagogues, kosher restaurants and Jewish schools line both Pico and Robertson boulevards, with a healthy mix of single-family homes, condos and apartment buildings tucked in the blocks behind.

Rabbi Kogan was in the UAE as an emissary for Chabad, which caters to the religious, social and humanitarian needs of Jews around the world, and he also managed a kosher supermarket in Dubai.

Season the lamb chops with a sprinkle of kosher salt.

These ideas swirl around Maddie, whose family eats kosher and observes the high holidays, and who rebels against her culture’s expectations of her as a wife and mother.

Tran told law enforcement that he looked online for a “kosher market” and decided to shoot someone nearby, according to an FBI affidavit.