Actors Leo Penn and Eileen Ryan are husband and wife and the starsof Graham Reid\’s \”Remembrance\” at the Odyssey Theatre. And their son,Sean, the movie star and director, has put up much of the money to bring them together onstage for the first time in 40 years.\n
Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels received the surprising news during Rosh Hashanah morning services at Beth Shir Sholom in Santa Monica. The Rev. Sandra Richards of the Church in Ocean Park stood up in her seat to tell him: The Oct. 1 vote on whether to decertify the union at the Miramar Sheraton Hotel had resulted in a virtual draw.\n
The Miramar Sheraton Hotel is one of the jewels of Santa Monica.It sits astride a full block on Ocean Avenue and looks west, over thePalisades and the blue Pacific. Inside, there are lush gardens, aluxurious swimming pool and tanned guests who look as if they areemblems of Southern California.\n\nThe hotel is where President Clinton has often stayed duringvisits to Los Angeles.\n\nAnd the Miramar Sheraton is the only Santa Monica hotel that isunionized.
Director Peter Bogdanovich is best-known for \”The Last PictureShow,\” \”Paper Moon\” and other films that explore the Americanexperience.\n\nHe is also known for his affairs with youthful, blond andquintessentially American sex symbols: a radiant, 22-year-old CybillShepherd from \”The Last Picture Show\”; the glamorous but doomedPlayboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten, murdered in 1980 by herestranged husband; and Stratten\’s younger sister, an actress thegrieving Bogdanovich began mentoring at the age of 13 and marriedseven years later.
It is a late Friday morning, not long before Rosh Hashanah, and already the tantalizing smells of exotic spices and frying onions are wafting from Marcelle Kadkhoda\’s sunny, compact apartment kitchen.\nThe Persian émigré, in her 70s, is wearing an apron and sensible shoes as she cooks for Shabbat, preparing the family recipes that have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations.\n
So, one has to ask, why did Rachel Wohlgelernter apply to Yale?
More than a century ago, Theodor Herzl was a prominent Europeanjournalist who lived in Vienna and was essentially a Jewish assimilationist. He wasn\’t much concerned about Jewish life or identity. As an intellectual, he considered himself a citizen of Europe.\n\nThen came the assignment that would change his life, and world Jewry, forever.
Therman Statom, one of this country\’s pre-eminent experimental glass artists, was perched atop a ladder beside his precarious-looking installation at the Skirball Cultural Center.
\”We are dwindling,\” says the 1939 Club\’s Fred Diament.\n\n\”We are afraid of what will happen when we are no longer around tokeep the memory alive,\” says the Lodzer Organization of California\’sKal Berson.\n\nThe aging Holocaust survivors are speaking not only of fellowsurvivors but also of their respective clubs, which were formed inthe 1950s by émigrés who had lost everything to Hitler.
Think kosher food, and you think blintzes, kishke, brisket, tsimmes, matzo balls, corned beef on rye.\n\nYou don\’t immediately think of fajitas, smoked-salmon quiche, turkey burgers with onion rings, rosemary-grilled breast of chicken with braised leeks and forest mushrooms, or flourless chocolate cake with raspberry sauce.
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