Howard Zieff still remembers how he found the people to photograph in 1967 for his most famous advertisement, which had the tag line, \”You don\’t have to be Jewish to love Levy\’s.\”
These days, Third and Fairfax is pure traffic mayhem. Bulldozers, big rigs and construction workers jam the city streets and block available driveways. Trying to park at Farmers Market, the historical market and eatery that has drawn locals and tourists for 68 years, is like entering a revolving door and not stopping. Not only is the Market going through a $45-million revival, but a new outdoor shopping mall, The Grove at Farmers Market, is being erected, for a projected March 15 opening, amidst a flurry of dissension and exhilaration.
Bridge of Understanding was launched in 1993 by the Office of German-American Cooperation at the German Foreign Ministry, and Weiler has been the project\’s director almost from the beginning.
A California gal for most of my life, I endured jabs and digs about the dearth of culture and the abundance of silicone in our fair city during my two-year stint in New York. (I am neither blessed with blond hair nor an 18-inch Malibu Barbie waistline, nevertheless my East Coast friends had many a laugh at the expense of my geography.)
It was on a weekend ski trip to Vermont that I got to wave my California banner with pride.
As people shoosh down the California mountains, one group will be getting more than just snow: Torah.
Violence in Israel is forcing thousands of North American Jewish youths to cancel plans to visit Israel this year.
The opening of Berlin\’s Jewish Museum, an architectural marvel that houses a celebration of German Jewish culture, has done wonders to invigorate interest in Germany as a Jewish tourist destination.
It\’s not every day a grown woman gets her cheeks pinched by another woman who\’s tickled pink to see her eating, but then Yvonne Haller is no ordinary French restaurateur.
Shanghai resident Seth Kaplan got tired of celebrating the High Holy days in rented hotel spaces while the city\’s oldest intact synagogue sat empty, deteriorating just a few miles away.
The election of Dr. Riccardo Di Segni as the new chief rabbi of Rome opens the latest chapter in the tumultuous life of a Jewish community that traces its history back to the days of the Maccabees.
