Expanding Horizons
Beverly Gray
October 28, 1999
In early October, four 13-year-olds from Tel Aviv spent 10 days in Southern California.
Category
Culture
Meandering Plots Derail ‘Train’
Curt Schleier
October 28, 1999
It is \”Train of Life\’s\” misfortune to be released a year after the Oscar-winning Italian film, to which it inevitably will be compared and judged.
End Papers
Jewish Journal
October 21, 1999
Most sources on Jewish medical ethics in the past emanated from an Orthodox perspective and no comprehensive approach to the subject from a Conservative viewpoint was readily available.
A Heartfelt Roast for the Friars Club
Curt Schleier
October 21, 1999
Dean Ward says he was born at least two decades too late. He had an affinity for films of the mid-century, for the music of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. \”I used to scour the TV Guide for when the old movies were on.\”
Krispy Kreme
Curt Schleier
October 21, 1999
Not since the gas lines of the 1970s, perhaps, has a commodity been in such high demand. With the arrival of North Carolina-based Krispy Kreme in Southern California, it seems people can\’t get enough of the sweet stuff the company\’s been selling for 62 years.
Life and Loves of Lee Krasner
Naomi Pfefferman
October 21, 1999
The story reads like a tabloid saga, admits art historian Robert Hobbs, guest curator of the Lee Krasner Retrospective now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Back to Basics
Marlene Adler Marks
October 21, 1999
Afraid to speak for any one faction, our leaders spoke for none, while the public schools declined.
The Jewish Lens
Marlene Adler Marks
October 14, 1999
Last week I spoke to a large crowd of parents at a \”Jewish Day School Expo\” at Milken Community High School. Most of the parents didn\’t know what schools were available or where they were located. But they were eager indeed.
In the Name of Her Father
Naomi Pfefferman
October 14, 1999
\”What my father experienced at Dachau framed everything he did later in life,\” Nina says, citing his portraits of Spanish Civil War refugees, Mexican migrant workers and residents of the South Bronx. \”He spent his entire life trying to prove that all races had to be championed.\” Walter\’s stories of Dachau motivated Nina to make \”Liberators\” in 1992. \”My father taught me that it is never art for art\’s sake,\” she says. \”It\’s art to combat evil.\”
Book Group
Teresa Strasser
October 14, 1999
Here\’s the scene I most remember when I think about moving here from San Francisco: I\’m in my $385-a-month apartment, which is furnished only with a monolithic file cabinet I rescued from my uncle\’s garage and a day bed suited for a small child.
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