Remember the Refugees

Update: The great new doc I reviewed last time, “>Pico-Union Project founded by Craig Taubman. (Please find a reason to check it out. The Project, housed in Sinai Temple’s first home at Valencia and 11th Street, an amazing building with a huge pipe organ built into the wall, is home to a Jewish congregation, Women’s Mosque America and two Christian communities, and it regularly hosts and produces concerts, classes and other events that showcase the simmering cultural stew that is Los Angeles.)

On Sunday, the Project hosted“>The Markaz, a center for expressing the multiplicity of Middle Eastern cultural heritage in L.A. which aims to, “champion[s] a greater understanding of the Middle East and North Africa by presenting artistic and educational programs that bridge political and religious divides.” Soup for Syria offered scrumptious food and a most excellent concert featuring music from Northern Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, our enjoyment of which benefited the