The New West Pops, under conductor Steven Goldstein, debuted at the Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on Sept. 19 with “From Broadway to Hollywood – In Concert,” featuring actress-singer Lorna Luft. From left: Nelson Dodge, executive director of New West Symphony/New West Pops, Bernie Fields, Luft, Blake Ginther, Tobi Foster and Goldstein. Photo by Jeff Bandy
On Friday, Oct. 29, JewishJournal.com will broadcast LIVE the panel discussion, \”Importing Creativity from Israel: Israeli entertainment content in Hollywood.\” Moderated by The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Editor-in-Chief Rob Eshman, panelists will include:
On Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 4pm, JewishJournal.com will broadcast LIVE from The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Join us for \”Building the Jewish Service Movement: Making Service a Defining Part of American Jewish Life\” featuring Repair the World CEO Jon Rosenberg.
Former Arkansas governor and Fox talk show host Mike Huckabee\’s released a statement (via his website HuckPAC) condemning National Public Radio for its firing of analyst Juan Williams over recent comments he made regarding Muslims. Huckabee suggests defunding NPR, which received federal funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for violating Williams\’ freedom of speech.
The Hon. Ralph A. Amado, Commissioner of the Los Angeles Superior Court, died Oct. 17. He was 68.
Last weekend, thousands of Israeli Jews and Arabs demonstrated in Tel Aviv against a proposed loyalty oath that would require a pledge of allegiance by non-Jews to the “Jewish and democratic state of Israel.” On Oct. 18, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new amendment to the Citizenship Act, approved the previous week by Israel’s Cabinet by a vote of 22-8, should also include Jews seeking Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.
If the Museum of Tolerance (completed in 1993) was, as founder Rabbi Marvin Hier is fond of saying, designed for “the MTV Generation,” then the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (completed in 2010) is, for better and worse, the museum for the children of Facebook.
Cantor Ilan Davidson, executive and artistic director of KindredSPIRITS, presented Joel E. Jacob, chair for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, with a $30,000 check during an Aug. 9 luncheon at Spago in Beverly Hills, hosted by Barbara Lazaroff. MAZON received half of the net proceeds from the June 13 KindredSPIRITS concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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