Community Briefs
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.
When my daughter, Samantha, was 6, I got a call from our synagogue\’s Hebrew-school principal. \”Do you have a Christmas tree?\” DiDi asked.
Some years ago, the American Booksellers Association\’s holiday advertising theme was the phrase: \”Give a gift of love; Give a book.\” Jewish Book Month, scheduled in November, anticipated the gift-giving season.
The museum world in Los Angeles looks as though it is in for a significant challenge.
\”Phantom,\” \”Les Mis,\” and now… \”Masada: The Musical.\”
\”Masada\” is based on the mass suicide of 967 Jews who preferred death to enslavement by the Romans who had held their desert mountaintop fortress under siege.
\”I\’ve been pushing this rock uphill for 10 years, and I won\’t stop until I reach the top,\” says Jay Sanderson.\n\nThe \”rock\” Sanderson is edging upward is the Jewish Television Network, and it\’s been grunt work most of the way.
The Israeli Film Festival, now in it\’s 15th year, has, in many ways, come of age — in subject matter, directorial style and sensibility.
Don\’t call her the \”Jewel\” of Jewish preschool.
Sure, Pearl B. sings to the accompaniment of her acoustic six-string. And she does lean professionally on her gem-like first name. But that is where any similarity to the chirpy pop star ends.
Art may soothe the savage beast, as the saying goes, but can it get through to teen-agers?




