A Song in His Heart
September 12, 2002
Singer-pianist-archivist Michael Feinstein\’s new album, his first with a symphony orchestra, is all standards and all Jewish.
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
Music in a Universal Key
September 12, 2002
A Turkish-born cantor will bring tunes of his Sephardi heritage to a festival next week celebrating Southern California\’s religious diversity.
Harmonic Convergence
August 1, 2002
Singers and lovers of Jewish music will gather in Sepulveda Pass this week for a festival celebrating Jewish choral music of the past and present.
A Tough Farewell
June 13, 2002
It\’s hard to know who will suffer the greater wrench this summer: Rabbis Jackie and David Ellenson, as they leave Los Angeles, or Jewish Los Angeles for losing them.
Maseng of Many Hats
June 6, 2002
Somebody must have perfected human cloning, because no way is Danny Maseng just one person.
When the singer-songwriter-guitarist-actor-poet-dramatist-lay rabbi-teacher-visionary, who will headline the Fund for Reform Judaism\’s annual fundraiser at Temple Isaiah in Rancho Park on June 13, isn\’t performing, he may be teaching the Zohar, leading a service at his New York congregation or dashing off a new setting for a passage in Jewish liturgy.
Or he might be working institutionally on innovations in Jewish arts, Jewish worship, Jewish music or Jewish camping.
Hess Kramer Turns 50
May 23, 2002
It has been a training ground for hundreds of Jewish professionals, and it has caused Shabbat candles to glow in countless homes.
Worth Waiting For
May 9, 2002
With pomp, ritual and the added joy that comes when a long wait precedes a happy event, the Los Angeles school of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) ordained its first rabbis May 5 at Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
Into the Words
April 25, 2002
People are always asking Dvora Weisberg\’s parents, \”Where did you go wrong?\”
Heart and Soul
January 31, 2002
The voice on the CD is smoky, sultry, exotic, spinning out messages of devotion in a foreign tongue. But when a reporter calls at 9 p.m. on a Monday night, the owner of that voice says, prosaically enough, "Let me turn down the TV," and the next thing coming over the wire is Peter Boyle yelling at Doris Roberts.
No News Is Bad News
January 24, 2002
Thousands of Jews in Southern California, among hundreds of thousands worldwide, carry the gene for a fatal disease that\’s as prevalent as Tay-Sachs and just as devastating, but local Jewish leaders have failed to let the public know that the disorder exists — and is now preventable.
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