Success and Shopping
Laurel Ives
April 12, 2001
From her autobiography it is clear that sex and shopping have played an important role in Judith Krantz\’s actual life, too.
Category
Entertainment
Menkes’ ‘Divorce’
Jewish Journal Staff
April 5, 2001
Dr. John Menkes\’ \”Lady Macbeth Gets a Divorce\” at the Beverly Hills Playhouse is a witty and diverting drawing-room comedy that elicits something most sitcoms don\’t: real laughs.
Chai-Level Jewish Contributions
Dennis Gura
April 5, 2001
In traditional Jewish life, parents often add excitement to Pesach (or Shavuot or Sukkot) by giving gifts to their children (and even each other). Gift-giving, not just reserved for Chanukah and birthdays, spices up all of Jewish life.
Family Affair
Naomi Pfefferman
April 5, 2001
At Wilshire Boulevard Temple\’s Westside campus this month, Juliet Landau, who was raised in an assimilated Jewish home, will again take a walk on the dark side, but in a very different kind of play.
Rapture in Color
Naomi Pfefferman
April 5, 2001
Artist Laura Lasworth was transfixed by the Orthodox Jewish woman she saw ecstatically praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in the summer of 1998.
People of the Book
Judy Gruen
March 29, 2001
Business has continued to burgeon in the decade since Rabbi Shimon Kraft and his wife, Elizabeth, opened the 613 Mitzvah Store. There is rarely a slow time in the shop.
Being Richard Feynman
Tom Tugend
March 29, 2001
I\’ve always felt that what viewers bring to a play or movie by way of personal background and experience determines their level of enjoyment (or dislike) as much as the skills of the actors and author.
Case Lost, Insight Gained
Naomi Pfefferman
March 29, 2001
\”The minute a Jewish lawyer from New York City came to Alabama,\” one historian noted, \”the case was lost.\”
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