A Holocaust survivor, a legendary folk singer and a documentary on refugee children during the Nazi era were among the Jewish artists and themes sharing the spotlight during Sunday night\’s Academy Awards ceremonies.
At the end of August 1992, a young man, who had gone out to a bar because he was \”bored,\” struck our car. The drunken driver injured my family and killed Liana, my 18-year-old daughter, as we were returning home from Friday night services. Liana was going to fly out the next day to attend college at Brandeis University.
Joan Nathan is one of America\’s premier food journalists, which is what makes \”The Foods of Israel Today\” so important a book.
\nPhotographer Bernard Mendoza encountered the blond, angelic-faced little boy one Saturday evening outside Yeshiva Rav Isacsohn on La Brea Avenue. \”His eyes were wide and bright, his suit just one size too large — room to grow into,\” the Venice photographer recalls.
Richard Lewis is a comedian who has perfected the art of the kvetch.
Responding to widespread debate over Poles\’ participation in a 1941 massacre of Jews, Poland\’s political and religious leaders are calling on Polish citizens to confront their past.
\”Great-grandma was a naughty girl,\” says British filmmaker Ben Hopkins, whose feature debut, \”Simon Magus,\” is the tale of a Polish shtetl in peril.
Stephen Tolkin was sitting at his desk, recounting how Rabbi Mark Borovitz became the inspiration for the leading male character on his spiritually themed CBS series, "Kate Brasher."
\”King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel\” by Jonathan Kirsch (Ballantine Books, $28)
In his \”Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text,\” Rabbi Burton Visotzky writes, \”To the extent that the Bible reveals the words of God to a community, it is essential that students get those words down right, so that they may become part of the community. In certain communities, students of the Bible are free to question, grapple, doubt and deny — so long as they first hear their community\’s reading of God\’s word.\”
The scene: Avenue of the Stars, Century City.
The characters: A few older men in a Park Hyatt suite.
The action: They kibbitz
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is here from Atlanta to interview Golden Age Hollywood figures for an oral history, the Turner Classic Movies Archive Project. TCM\’s goal is to get all available witnesses to tell their cinematic stories. The project is modeled after the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
