modern Archives – Jewish Journal

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through Feb. 2009

Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler December 10, 2008

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through November 2008

Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin September 11, 2008

Rising Singing Star Pitches New Sound

David Mermelstein June 1, 2006

Hila Plitmann is building a career based largely on new music by composers like David Del Tredici, John Corigliano, Roger Reynolds and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the latter the longtime music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and something of a Plitmann champion.

Capturing Chasidim

Susan Josephs January 19, 2006

While other photographers have sought to document Chasidism from more of an insider\’s perspective, Maya Dreilinger purposefully maintained her distance as an outsider. She wandered around the La Brea area dressed as she normally does and refused the occasional invitation to dinner at someone\’s home.

Kabbalah and the Modern Shrink

Gaby Friedman October 6, 2005

Since the early 1990s, Rabbi Abner Weiss, former rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation and current rabbi at the Westwood Village Synagogue, has been using kabbalistic tools in his psychology practice. Recently, he published \”Connecting to God, Ancient Kabbalah and Modern Psychology,\” a book that asserts the congruity of the two disciplines.

A Bissel ‘Kvetch’ Goes a Long Way

Allan Nadler September 29, 2005

Wex analyzes the many ways that Yiddish — a language that has perfected the art of the curse while experiencing deep discomfort with praise — developed a strategy to deal with those rare times when a Yiddish Jew (henceforth, the \”Yid\”) has nothing negative, nasty or bitter to say.