Flapper Era
October 24, 2002
Collector Stephen White has lent 32 Strauss-Peyton portraits from the early 1920s to The Jewish Federation\’s Bell Family Gallery for \”Art & Artifice.\”
Michael Aushenker
My Yiddische Papa
October 24, 2002
\”Yiddish is our language; it\’s our culture,\” said educator Yakob Basner. \”Before the war, 12 million Jews spoke it. And the last words spoken by the Jews in the Holocaust before they were killed was in Yiddish.\”
A Solid Gold Artist
October 17, 2002
Not long ago, Jeffrey Gold disappeared from Los Angeles\’ art scene.\”I just buried myself in my work,\” said the 45-year-old artist. \”I didn\’t let people see the work. I was kind of struggling.\”
Preparing for Terror
October 10, 2002
Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director general of Hadassah Medical Organization, who oversees the operation of Hadassah\’s two Jerusalem-area hospitals, visited Los Angeles last week.
Funny, He Doesn’t Look Jewish
October 10, 2002
\”It\’s clobberin\’ time!\” used to be the Thing\’s catchphrase — but now he might be hollering, \”It\’s davenin\’ time!\”\n\nFour decades after his debut in \”Fantastic Four\” No. 1 (Vol. 1) — the comic book that single-handedly launched Marvel Comics — the craggy orange member of the eponymous superhero quartet has been revealed to be Jewish in \”Fantastic Four\” No. 56 (Vol. 3).
Terror Victim Lives On in Video
October 3, 2002
Lisa Frost was always No. 1. She was the firstborn in her family. She was the first person to start a community service program at the School of Hospitality at Boston University, from which she graduated in May 2001 and was the valedictorian. She will also be the first completed video profile on producer-director Mark Rothman\’s interactive database, \”Out of Many … One: Biographies of the Victims of Sept. 11.\”
Support Groups Spur On Hospital
October 3, 2002
At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, approximately 40 support groups raise millions of dollars for research, wards, departments, buildings and other medical and physical needs.
Did You Know…?
October 3, 2002
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center spans over 24 acres and encompasses 1.5 million square feet.
From TB to T-Cell
October 3, 2002
Sometimes, adversity strikes gold. In Los Angeles, three major medical institutions, including Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai — the independent hospitals that merged to form Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — and the City of Hope sprang from Los Angeles\’ Jewish tuberculosis problem.
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