Student Shimmi Jotkowitz, right, hugs his teacher Julio Castro outside YULA Boys High School. Students at YULA, a private Jewish school in Pico-Robertson, raised $30,000 to buy a Mazda 3 for Castro, ...

Math teacher Julio Castro thought he was late to the party when he walked in near the end of a faculty-appreciation assembly at YULA Boys High School. He wished he could have dropped his name into the ...