Gaby Wenig
Sotheby’s Auctions Hebrew Collection
Jacob Joshua Falk was home studying Talmud when a nearby gunpowder factory exploded. Trapped beneath debris with no escape route in sight, the 22-year-old Pole made a vow to God: if saved, he would study Talmud diligently. He immediately spied a clearing and crawled out of the rubble only to find that his entire family had been killed.
Circuit
Cast members from the new \”Ten Commandments\” musical performed for about 120 people at AMIT\’s Cherish The Children dinner on Oct. 25 at Brentwood\’s Luxe Hotel, with the organization event raising money for AMIT\’s 60 schools serving 15,000 at-risk Israeli youth.
Passion to Help Sick Spawns Wider Effort
When Lori Marx-Rubiner underwent a bilateral mastectomy two years ago, she lost the use of her arms for a few weeks. She couldn\’t brush her teeth, let alone tackle cooking dinner or driving her son to school.
How Jewish is ‘Too Jewish’?
Eugene Yelchin painted his \”Section Five\” series using his fingers instead of brushes. In the earthy, orangy-brown tones and thick, rounded strokes of paint, the faces he painted emerge blurred somewhat with the background, as if the artist didn\’t want them to be seen clearly.
Jewish Groups Vow to Help Sudanese
On Yom Kippur, as his congregants at B\’nai David Judea were fasting and praying for the year ahead, Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky asked them to think not about themselves, but about people being killed in Darfur, Sudan.
\”I asked people to make a contribution to one of the relief organizations in the amount of what they would have eaten themselves were in not Yom Kippur,\” Kanefsky said. \”Sudan is calling to us for immediate attention.\”
Circuit
On Oct. 4, the Beverly Hilton became the only place in town where you could watch Jeffrey Tambor and Rabbis Laura Geller and Debra Orenstein say Hamotzi.
Examining the Jewish Vote
Like many Jews, Paul Kujawsky is a vociferous supporter of Sen. John Kerry. But at Shaarey Zedek Congregation in the Valley, he stands out as such an anomaly that his rabbi refers to him as \”the one Democrat in the shul.\”
Local Team Solves Ancient Mystery
In 1979 two tiny pieces of cracked and deteriorated silver found in a tomb outside of the Old City of Jerusalem proved to be one of the most important archeological discoveries of the century.
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