Can an alcoholic who was poisoned with his father\’s anti-Semitism use a moment of naked exposure to confront his bigotry? Can he ever hope to cleanse himself of this deeply-seated hatred or is he forever doomed?
100 or so young Jews gathered to celebrate the third issue of Guilt and Pleasure, a literary quarterly out of New York whose first issue featured a cover photograph of a border collie smoking a cigarette.
OySongs.com is the first music download site dedicated exclusively to Jewish music and, with the Web site about a month old, its founder, Joe Eglash, is still breathless from excitement.
Any Hollywood producer would give his right arm for the stars listed last week in a full-page advertisement in the Los Angeles Times.\n\n
\”Boynton Beach Club,\” opening Friday, seems an unexpected turn for filmmaker Susan Seidelman, best known as a chronicler of hip 1980s youth culture.
Before Arthur Rosenberg became a rabbi he played one on TV. He starred as an Orthodox rabbi on \”Chicago Hope\” and as a Reform rabbi on \”The District,\” in addition to playing doctors, lawyers and police chiefs on shows like \”Knots Landing,\” \”Beverly Hills, 90210\” and \”The X-Files.\” But now Rosenberg, 60, has moved on to a new role — the first staff rabbi hired by the Motion Picture and Television Fund\’s Wasserman Campus in its 58-year history.
On Sunday, in the intense heat of a mid-summer day, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, carried a Sephardic Torah for one-half mile along city streets in Tarzana to a new Persian synagogue that had been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack just two days earlier. Police are still investigating the arson attempt, which burned a rear door of Beith David Education Center on Clark Street, as well as anti-Jewish graffiti left at the scene, as a hate crime.
Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.
