\”Being that the Jewish community is relatively small, Jews are reluctant to seek help,\” says therapist Dr. Susan M. Davis, citing the continued stigma attached to such psychological afflictions.
I understand that most people like to see the sights for themselves. Me, I\’d rather look at the picture.
Still, it seems, Elie Wiesel is uneasy in his dual roles of inward-looking writer and public activist. He acknowledges a certain degree of self-censorship, particularly in writing about his confrontations with leaders in Israel, American Jewish spokesmen and certain Holocaust scholars.
In a concert entitled \”The Light of Helfman-Generations of Music from the Brandeis-Bardin Institute\”, which celebrates Max Helfman, founder of Brandeis Bardin\’s Summer Arts Institute, the LAJS will inaugurate its sixth season with a performance of Handel\’s triumphant \”Judas Maccabeus\” in a Yiddish translation by Helfman.
When the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles celebrated the launch of its anti-illiteracy program KOREH Los Angeles in September, the focus was on educators and celebrities to read children\’s books to kids. Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the spotlight at that event were some local women who are equally vital in the campaign against illiteracy: the creators of the children\’s books themselves.
It says something about Gisele Ben-Dor\’s dedication to her profession that when she made her conducting debut with the Israel Philharmonic in 1983, she was nine months pregnant.\nHer concluding piece was Stravinsky\’s \”The Rite of Spring,\” which, in view of her particular condition, was renamed by the orchestra as \”The Rite of the Offspring.\”\n\n
There was a sort of informal poll conducted among the delegates who gathered in Atlanta last week for the annual assembly of America\’s Jewish welfare federations.\nThe agency that convened them, the newly-designated United Jewish Communities, had scheduled a series of discussions for the assembly\’s second day on the four \”pillars\” that sum up its mission: Jewish renaissance, social services, Israel and overseas needs, and fundraising. Delegates were free to pick their \”pillar.\”
My Granny was gleeful, giving us the best part of her, as we gathered in her kitchen on the first day of the joyous holiday — Chanukah — the \”Festival of Lights\”.
Ruth Schrier paints wolves and landscapes of the mind; Judith Margolis captures the interior journey of her move to Israel. The work of both artists is on display in an exhibit, \”Spiritscapes,\” at the University of Judaism.
A first draft of the script illegally made its way onto the Internet and into the hands of William Donohue of the Catholic League. Upon reading dialogue about Joseph and Mary\’s sex life and a portrayal of a descendent of Jesus employed by an abortion clinic, Donohue, without having seen the film, launched an all-out assault against \”Dogma.\”
