The idea for our lead story on Jewish influence, \”East Coast vs. West Coast\” (see Tom Tugend\’s story), originated with our publisher, Stanley Hirsh.
Dear David Ives:
I attended a preview performance of your play \”Ancient History\” last Saturday (Sept. 11) at the Fountain Theatre, where a member of the production company announced that the play still needed \”tweaking,\” and so we should feel free to pass along our comments and suggestions.
As you drive north along Figueroa Street in Highland Park, past La Pescador and the car wash, past Frank\’s Cameras and the farmacia, you come to El Paso Shoe Store, where families from the neighborhood shop to get a good bargain on shoes.
Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer to the stars, picks up the phone. \”Jew speaking,\” he says.
Emmy Award-winning Vilanch, 51, is one of the drollest Jews in Hollywood.
Sharon Ann Dror, born deaf, didn\’t enjoy seders with her hearing family while growing up in a traditional Jewish home in Santa Monica.
Anyone from the Western part of the United States aspiring to national Jewish leadership has \”got to be an 11 on a scale of one to 10,\” Burton Levinson says.
The latest round in the battle for Jerusalem is being waged not in the Middle East but in the Magic Kingdom.
Rosh Hashanah may be a time of year when Jews around the world pray for peace, but for the 16,000 Jewish residents of the Golan Heights, those prayers were somewhat more difficult to recite this year.
In a corner of downtown Central Library\’s Children\’s Literature Department, actor Elliott Gould is reading \”Arthur\’s New Puppy.\”
Sunset on Sunday. As Rosh Hashanah was ending, the local Chabad rabbi and a friend were walking down the hillside outside my home carrying rams\’ horns.
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