Kazan’s Residents:
August 5, 2004
A Sunday in the park. A brilliant, bright sun warms the air. The frozen tundra has given way to seedlings, flowers and patches of green.
Marc Ballon
The Days and Nights of Berkowitz
August 5, 2004
On a recent bus ride through the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz ignores the rustic scenery surrounding him.
Federation Faces Underfunded Pension
July 29, 2004
Faced with a pension shortfall of $20 million, the organized Jewish community\’s largest philanthropy finds itself forced to divert millions of donor dollars to employee retirement benefits, rather than to needed social services.
Brother Emphasizes Kerry Israel Support
July 1, 2004
A crowd of 150 well-heeled, mostly liberal Jews paid $250 apiece to hear Cameron Kerry, Sen. John Kerry\’s Jewish brother and top adviser, speak about the Democratic presidential candidate\’s commitment to Israel and the Jewish people.
Lewis Black Hits It Big by Seeing Red
June 17, 2004
Lewis Black is pissed off.
In his HBO special, \”Black on Broadway,\” the black-clad Jewish comic from New York with the tobacco-tinged rasp unleashes a torrent of four-letter words and razor-edged observations about the world around him — a world that could be so much better, so much kinder, so much gentler. But isn\’t.
Esther Netter: A One-Woman Dynamo
June 3, 2004
Time is running out for Esther Netter. On June 6, the Zimmer Children\’s Museum will unveil its most ambitious art exhibit in its 14-year history to an expected sellout crowd of 300. As if that wasn\’t enough, the Zimmer\’s executive director must simultaneously ready her organization for independence from the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA), an outfit that for years has provided important services to Zimmer at heavily discounted rates.
Seated in a conference room with two Zimmer executives, Netter gave a progress report on the last-minute preparations for \”Show & Tel: Art of Connection,\” which will feature 179 telephones transformed into artworks by the likes of musician Alicia Keys, actress Elizabeth Taylor and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The funky phones, up for auction, will benefit youTHink, an art-based social issues program for third- to-12th-graders (see sidebar below).
‘Show & Tel’ Dials the Right Artwork
June 3, 2004
\”Show & Tel: Art of Connection,\” the Zimmer Children\’s Museum\’s exhibition of 179 telephones decorated and deconstructed by painters, sculptors, politicians, athletes and others, features an array of artworks ranging from the whimsical to the confrontational.
Grouped by such themes as sports and color schemes, the often funky and always surprising phones fill several rooms at the Zimmer. Taken together, they show that a little imagination can go a long way toward transforming a prosaic object into something compelling and original.
All the phones are up for sale. Proceeds will go to youTHink, a Zimmer program for students that uses art to discuss important social issues.
Civil Rights Goes Beyond Ethnic Lines
May 6, 2004
When the nation\’s largest and oldest Mexican American civil rights group selected a new leader recently, the committee that recruited her included the organization\’s chairman, a man who is neither a Mexican American nor an immigrant. Meet Joe Stern.
Vocational Service Gains Career Center
April 29, 2004
To Vivian Seigel, Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) is a living, breathing entity that must grow with the times or risk irrelevance.
More Jews May Hop on Bush Bandwagon
April 29, 2004
Chaim Mentz is a registered Democrat who has voted Democratic in the past five elections.
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