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Are You My Mother?

All her life, Jeanette Kopitowsky has been searching for a face in the crowd. She scans strangers\’ faces for someone, anyone who looks like herself. Her biological mother. Her father. A sibling.\nThe playwright-actress, who was abandoned by her parents as a baby, grew up in foster homes until she was adopted by a Jewish family at the age of seven. She describes the painful experience in her powerful, one-woman show, \”What\’s Your Name, Who\’s Your Daddy?\” which asks the question, \”Do I exist if I don\’t have anyone to claim me?\”\n\n

Skirball’s Sephardic Festival

When you grow up in the States, all you know is Ashkenazi Jewish culture,\” laments Moroccan-Jewish musician Ron Elkayam. \”But that is such a small part of the continuum of Jewish life.\”

A Timeless Hollywood Tale

\”Merton of the Movies,\” the wonderfully funny production at the Geffen Playhouse, shows that not all that much has changed in Hollywood since the comedy\’s première in 1922.

Taste of KlezMex

In spite of thunder, lightning, pouring rain and occasional gusts of unchecked sentimentalism, the Viva Klezmer-L\’Khayim Mariachi concert at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 11, was a high-energy, crowd-pleaser that mostly delivered on its promise to explore the intersection of the two forms.

Music That Heals

Whenever John Mauceri conducts the Israel Philharmonic, Israeli reporters ask him why an Italian Catholic is so preoccupied with Holocaust refugee composers.

Local Authors: From Torah to Tinseltown

The tale of an orphan\’s search for acceptance. A lawyer\’s fantasy of a Holocaust survivor\’s revenge. A book that may save your marriage. These are just a few of the interesting choices made for this year\’s People of the Book Festival.

A Dog Tale

The mutt was shivering with fever, his nose bleeding from a beating he had received from some bad men. \”But there was something that drew me to him, a kind of human gaze in the eyes,\” says the author of 15 books and films such as \”Smoke\” and \”Lulu on the Bridge.\”

Striking a Discordant Note

Gottfried Wagner was only 9 when he stole a key his father had hidden and slipped into the Festspielhaus, the shrine to his great-grandfather, Richard Wagner.

Elias and Company

You may know Jonathan Elias as the guy who composed the music to Chaplin and 9 1/2 Weeks. Or most of the songs on the Yes album, Union. Or the ditty to the original MTV promo, the one where the astronaut plants the MTV flag on the moon.

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