There’s no business like shul business
October 26, 2006
The retirement of Rabbi Moshe Rothblum after 35 years on the bimah at Adat Ari El.
Sarah Price Brown
Local minister, dressed as High Priest, stages Yom Kippur service for evangelicals
September 28, 2006
The way Dieckilman sees it, Jews are God\’s Chosen People and Christians are simply \”grafted on\” to that group.
\”There\’s no question Jews are the people blessed by God and chosen by God to bring redemption to earth,\” he said.
British theater group Stan’s Cafe uses piles of rice to bring statistics to life
September 21, 2006
Upon entering the museum, visitors will receive a grain of rice, representing themselves. Then, they will walk into a room filled with 300 million grains of rice – one for every person in the United States. The rice will be divided into piles, each one illustrating a statistic, such as the number of people who have walked on the moon or the millions of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island. One grain of rice will stand for one person.
And there it will be, among all the piles: a large mound with 6 million pieces, representing each individual Jewish life lost in the Holocaust.
Genocide survivors turn into lobbyists for Darfur
September 21, 2006
Eli Wiesel and George Clooney have spoken out about it. Protesters have rallied against it. Even an online game seeks to draw attention to the ongoing genocide in Sudan\’s Darfur.
After the Flood
August 24, 2006
Before Shelly Collen lost almost everything, her life had just fallen into place. Then Hurricane Katrina struck.
Artists Dream in a Golden Age
June 29, 2006
\”It\’s like a temple,\” the painter says of his artist\’s studio.
A lonely temple, that is.
\”I\’m the rabbi and congregation all in one,\” he says with a laugh.
Humor in ‘Eat’ an Acquired Taste
April 6, 2006
\”When Do We Eat?\” centers on the Stuckman family, which includes grandfather Artur (Jack Klugman); father Ira (Michael Lerner), who tries to lead \”the world\’s fastest seder\”; his neglected wife, Peggy (Lesley Ann Warren); and their children.
Lesson in Tolerance Seeks to Aid School
January 12, 2006
This tour is no typical high school field trip, with its predictable mix of unruly, disinterested teenagers. These students are here mainly because their school, Jefferson High, became a flash point last year for fights between Latino and African American students. The overcrowded, underperforming campus in South Los Angeles was 92 percent Latino, 7.5 percent black and, seemingly on a handful of occasions, nearly 100 percent out of control.
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