When Joanne Corday Kozberg talks about her new job as president and chief operating officer of the downtown Music Center, the key words are \”challenges,\” \”outreach\” and \”re-energizing.\”
The history of the Middle East conflict, from the birthpangs of the Jewish state to today\’s headlines, has rarely, if ever, been presented with more immediacy and human color as \”The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs.\”
I had my qualms. Having endured every form of group torture in the name of uniting Jewish men and women, I initially resisted the Traveling Shabbat Singles ad.
In a Chicago Tribune interview last October, shortly before pro basketball was shut down by a bruising lockout, players\’ union chief Billy Hunter waxed sentimental about his lifelong passion for defending the underdog.
Think Jean-Claude van Itallie, and you think, \”icon of the 1960s.\”
It is strange to be alone with Billy Crystal. He\’s still funny, insightful, charming — but the venue is all wrong.
There isn\’t much Irwin Winkler doesn\’t know about making movies, which is maybe why, unlike a lot of the young hotshots who\’ve been in the business five seconds, his favorite subject is not his own genius.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Risa Gruberger, whose children are 8 and 9, hopes they will both grow up loving the Jewish holidays as she does. \”When the weather\’s crisp out,\” says Gruberger, \”I want them to feel they can smell it, they can taste it, that Chanukah\’s coming.
