A big part of being a parent is stumbling around by the feeble glow of midlife\’s night-light, going, \”Wha…? What happened?\” But after eight years of it, I\’m beginning to understand.
Some people take lemons and make lemonade. Selma Schimmel took a diagnosis of cancer and turned it into a vast support network which has changed the lives of thousands of people.
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.
In 1961, a saddened and disheartened 23-year-old Algerian school teacher and musician named Gaston Ghenassia was merely one of the thousands of refugees on a ship bound for France, leaving his homeland in the aftermath of the Algerian Revolution. Little did he know at the time how defining a moment it was to become in his life.
Earlier this year, Greg Laemmle wasn\’t sure there was going to be another Cinema Judaica: The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival.
Recently, The Journal caught up with three comics whose Judaism informs their act and whose career informs their Judaism. Cathy Ladman quips about her intermarriage; Mark Schiff brings his comic pals to perform at an Orthodox shul fund-raiser; and Larry Miller views stand-up as Talmudic discourse.
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.
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.\”
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.
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.
