Glazer says he turned down glossier Hollywood projects to make the modest pic. \”The reason I did it, to be honest, is because I felt I didn\’t know how to work with actors,\” he told the Journal.
Thea Robertshaw suffered recurring nightmares long after her parents hid Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland. \”They were always about ominous, faceless soldiers waiting in the dark,\” said the artist, whose dream paintings are on display at the University of Judaism and the ElevenSeven Gallery in Long Beach.
\n\”The Jews of Ethiopia: A Personal Journey Back to Their Past\” consists of a collection of some 60 black-and-white photos taken by Dr. Wolf Leslau during a number of explorations of the Ethiopian hinterlands, starting in the mid-1940s.
The two voices began screaming inside Murray Mednick\’s head the minute he sat down to write a play some years ago. The characters were arguing viciously about money.\n\nThey sounded alarmingly familiar.
In the last weeks of spring, Jewish-themed theater is busting out all over Los Angeles:
\”Finding Each Other in Judaism: Meditations on the Rites of Passage From Birth to Immortality\” by Harold M. Schulweis. (UAHC Press, $12.95)
\”Finding Each Other in Judaism\” distills decades of those quiet, private moments when a curious, wounded or concerned congregant asks the rabbi: \”What do I do now?\”
Art and culture should be a more important priority in the Jewish community agenda, internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker Ruth Weisberg told graduates of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in her May 14 commencement address at the Los Angeles campus.
There are lots of things wrong with awards, aside from the fact that I so rarely win one.
The 60th birthday of Bob Dylan (né Robert Zimmerman) has created a bull market in baby-boomer nostalgia and soul-searching.
