American Jews are learned in everything — except Jewish texts
The American Jewish community is one of the most learned and sophisticated communities in Jewish history – in everything except Jewish texts. As Jews, we are illiterate.
The American Jewish community is one of the most learned and sophisticated communities in Jewish history – in everything except Jewish texts. As Jews, we are illiterate.
Trio of films offers eclectic choices.
Don\’t have time to shlep to a museum? Too tired to remember if the free museum day is the first or second Tuesday of the month?
If the controversy pumps up \”Heart,\” its Jewish filmmaker, Louis Schwartzberg, isn\’t taking advantage.
Julie Sandorf recalls her immigrant grandparents telling her that they learned to be Americans at the public library, where they improved their English and learned more about American culture.
As long as the Jewish people lives, it will generate a living culture, and as long as that culture values the written word, Jews will write books.
I thought I saw Arthur Goldberg the other night at USC. The late Supreme Court justice died in 1990, but his ghost surely hung over the Trojan campus Wednesday during Sen. Joseph Lieberman\’s speech at the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.
The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason, Woody Allen and, of course, Seinfeld. The history of American comedy is the history of America\’s funniest Jews. But while being Jewish and funny has never been mutually exclusive, comedians in days of yore mostly kept their Jewishness offstage. Times are changing, and with multiculturalism comes a new brand of Jewish comedian.