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The Skirball’s new Noah’s Ark exhibit encourages kids to explore universal values through the timele

Julie Gruenbaum Fax June 22, 2007

To 8-year-old Ezra, the pre-opening event at the new Noah\’s Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center is a novel and memorable play experience, with all the sorts of things kids love — noisy cranks and pulleys to operate, to play with and to discover. While fun is high on the list of goals for the fanciful and compelling world of Noah\’s Ark, opening to the public on June 26, curators believe a couple hours aboard the ark can also help kids and the grownups they bring learn about the importance of collaboration and the effect your actions can have on your world — all with the underlying epic theme of how to weather a storm and find safe harbor.

7 Days in the Arts: The Autry, a Lansky, new Transformers and Jewtopia

Dikla Kadosh June 15, 2007

Picks and clicks.

Not your father’s Poland

Jane Ulman June 8, 2007

Photo essay on Poland.

Grunions

Rob Eshman June 8, 2007

The grunion were running last weekend, so I went down to the Venice Beach breakwater just before midnight to watch them mate. The sight of thousands of slim, silvery fish wiggling desperately out of the surf and struggling to spawn before the next wave crashed upon them made me think, of course, of those birthright Israel trips.\n

Poland and the Jews: Is it time to stop hating the country when positive changes are transf

Jane Ulman June 8, 2007

Many Jews still view Poland as the land of pogroms, persecution and prejudice; a terminally anti-Semitic and blood-drenched country where 3 million Jews were mercilessly murdered during World War II; a land dotted with death camps, desecrated cemeteries and deserted synagogues. What most Jews don\’t know is that Poland has changed radically over the past couple of decades, and these days, it is reaching out to Israel and to Jews –and not just socially, either.