Community Briefs
Community Briefs
Actress and talk-show queen Roseanne is looking for a few good Jewish men.
\”If you were my client, you\’d have six hours of my time.
Peter Berg\’s \”Very Bad Things,\” the tale of a Las Vegas bachelor party gone terribly wrong, is the season\’s most twisted black comedy.
A typical seventh-grade essay might be about a soccer game, a trip to the mall or a favorite pet. But Mathew Rudes isn\’t a typical 12-year-old.
Goodbye, Columbus.\nAnd goodbye Portnoy, Tevye and Yentl, too.\n\nA glance back at the films of 1998 reveal Jewish characters who break the mold, overturn the stereotype, and stretch the image of Jews on-screen.
\”The Last Night of Ballyhoo\” arrived at the Cañon Theatre in Beverly Hills last month with impeccable credentials.
Artists from places as far afield as Brooklyn, Baltimore and Tal-Shahar, Israel, and as near as Beverly Hills will be exhibiting at the 18th annual Festival of Jewish Artisans at Temple Isaiah on Nov. 21-22. Among the crafts on the display will be sandblasted glass, ceramics, gold and silver jewelry, textiles, calligraphy, papercutting, photography and inlaid wood. Eleven of the 28 artists are new to the festival, but many have been exhibiting in the social hall of the Pico Boulevard synagogue for years.
\”It\’s an Italian-Jewish mother thing. They don\’t understand that you\’re not hungry anymore!\”
If you think the Academy Awards are unfair, biased and arbitrary, wait until you see what we\’ve come up with for our first Jewish film awards.




