Yiddishe Shvestern
February 15, 2001
Women always have been the private voice of Yiddish, which is, after all, called the mameloshn (mother tongue).
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
Open for Discussion
February 1, 2001
When Kelly Smith and Brian Bloch met at a convention in Long Beach in 1999, sparks flew. As they developed their long-distance relationship via e-mail — Brian at his computer in Houston, Kelly at hers in the Valley — they were astounded to find out how much they had in common.
Tough Dames in a Tough Game
January 18, 2001
Glamour, betrayal, influence and heartache, all in a day\’s work. In her first book, \”Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? Women\’s Experience of Power in Hollywood,\” Rachel Abramowitz, a former writer for Premiere magazine, lays out in impressive detail what the first significant wave of women in the film trade, a wave that hit the studios in the 1970s, had to go through to get women to be taken seriously by the industry.
Welcome Home
January 4, 2001
When her first liturgical tune popped into Debbie Friedman\’s head almost 30 years ago, she had no clue that she would become the queen of contemporary American Jewish music.
Nostalgia Trip
December 21, 2000
In his new CD, \”Garden of Yidn\” (Naxos World), violinist and music historian Yale Strom, who will be in concert in Los Angeles next week, offers tunes going back as far as the early 19th century, giving the listener not only a superior musical experience but some fascinating historical sketches of Jews in the Yiddish- and Ladino-speaking world.
Best-Kept Secret
December 21, 2000
The Catholic-Jewish Women\’s Dialogue, one of the best-kept secrets in the Jewish community, was created in 1977, its instigators a group of Catholic religious sisters.
A Modest Proposal
December 14, 2000
Chanukah is a minor holiday that commemorates the victory in 165 b.c.e. of outnumbered Jewish forces over the army of the oppressive Greco-Syrian empire that ruled Palestine at that time.
Great Music
November 30, 2000
One was a U.S. resident from the beginning of his long life to its end, creating music as American in its sound and subject matter as \”Yankee Doodle Dandy.\” The other, after making his mark in Germany, fled his homeland through France and spent his final, tragically few years adding to the glory of the American musical theater at its height.
Hot Dog!
November 9, 2000
Vegetarianism may be trendy and maybe even healthy, but when Jeff Rohatiner was looking for a product on which he could base a restaurant, he knew that most of us are carnivores at heart. So he figured there\’d be a market for the wares at Jeff\’s Gourmet Kosher Sausage Factory, opened in late 1998 in the heart of Pico-Robertson.
Sounds of Healing
October 26, 2000
Half of Tina Feiger\’s family fled from there in 1938. Barbara Ravitz became so anxious on a visit there in 1969 that she hasn\’t been back since. Sherri Lipman, like so many American Jews, has never been there.
On Nov. 25, they will be in Germany, part of a huge, largely Jewish choral ensemble singing music based on a Jewish text, written by of one of the world\’s most renowned Jewish composers. They will be not just in Germany, but in Nuremberg, where the Nazi regime generated its restrictive anti-Semitic laws. Not just in Nuremberg, but in a concert hall built over the rubble of the arena where thousands of Germans gathered in the 1930s to affirm Adolf Hitler\’s hate-filled rants.
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