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Jewish Journal August 26, 1999

Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.

Fennel & Spice & Everything Nice

Leilah Bernstein August 26, 1999

Zane\’s claims, after all, to keep the only Glatt kosher sausage factory in Los Angeles. And the place is so spotlessly clean you\’d be surprised all sorts of meats are prepared right there. \”The Orthodox come in,\” said Mr. Price, 57, a Sabra with a thick Israeli accent, \”and say they haven\’t seen anything like this — not even in New York!\”

Hardly a Garden of ‘Eden’

Naomi Pfefferman August 26, 1999

Jennifer Maisel, who\’s been described as \”David Lynch with estrogen,\” explores child abuse, insanity, suicide, rape. In \”Mating Season,\” a young man sets out to supply all the local sperm banks. In \”Mad Love,\” a 13-year-old girl begs a Christmas-tree salesman to rescue her from her incestuous father. Now comes \”Eden,\” the tale of a suicidal woman with AIDS who withdraws from her friends and her optimistic mother, a Holocaust survivor.

The Let’s Do ‘Dinner Game’

Michael Aushenker August 26, 1999

Many American filmgoers still aren\’t familiar with Francis Veber. Yet they should be — they\’ve been watching his work for two decades. Sort of.

Rock for the Ages

Scott Benarde August 26, 1999

In 1995, while on the Florida leg of a concert tour, Bob Dylan walked into Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach and attended Yom Kippur services.

Teaching The Tots

Julie Wiener August 26, 1999

The field\’s low prestige and low salaries — in the New York area teachers average $20,000 with no benefits — as well as a surge of other career options now available for women, make recruitment of new teachers extremely challenging.

It’s Just Business

Ellen Sandler August 19, 1999

\”Do they all have to be Italian?\”

This is the question the network executive asked the creator of \”Everybody Loves Raymond\” as they were casting Ray Romano\’s family.

When Silent Was Golden

Tom Tugend August 19, 1999

The First Picture Show\” at the Taper Forum resembles the early silent movies whose creators the play celebrates — sometimes fuzzy, sometimes jerky, but moving the action, and the audience, right along.<

Chabad’s Prime-Time Bash

Naomi Pfefferman August 19, 1999

It\’s a unique mixture of Hollywood marketing savvy and Chassidic religious fervor — one of the last live variety shows on TV, according to its promoters. The goal is to surpass last year\’s telethon tote board total of $4,387,652.

The Parent Trap

Rabbi Elazar Muskin August 19, 1999

We currently seem more perplexed than ever by the challenge of child rearing, by the dynamics involved in the \”generation gap\” that has led to the current gory headlines.

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