Janice Soprano Janice Soprano Janice Soprano Baccalieri, played by Aida Turturro, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". She is Tony Soprano's elder sister. A young Janice has appeared in flashbacks, played by Madeline Blue and Juliet Fox. As the oldest child of mobster Johnny Boy Soprano and Livia Soprano in a household financed by crime, Janice grew complacent of her family's criminal ties. For example, "Johnny Boy" took Janice to an amusement park where other mobsters and their daughters were. The mobsters used this as a cover to conduct criminal activities, until they eventually get busted (and
History of the Jews in Los Angeles Morris L. Goodman was the first Jewish Councilman in 1850 when the Pueblo de Los Ángeles "Ayuntamento" became the Los Angeles City Council with US statehood. Solomon Lazard, a Los Angeles merchant, served on the Los Angeles City Council in 1853, and also headed the first Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Joseph Newmark, a lay rabbi, began conducting the first informal Sabbath services in Los Angeles in 1854. In 1854 Joseph Newmark arrived in of Los Angeles and helped found the Hebrew Benevolent Society for the evolving Jewish community, after organizing congregations in New York and St. Louis. The first