Valley Torah Breaks New Ground
Wendy J. Madnick
September 2, 1999
Valley Torah High School, the only Jewish high school located in the San Fernando Valley, is getting a new home.
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Old Stories
To Live and Die in West Beirut
Tom Tugend
September 2, 1999
There have been a few Israeli films that dealt with relationships between Arabs and Jews (among them the superb prison drama \”Beyond the Walls\”), but rarely do we see an Arab movie that tells the story from the perspective of the \”other side.\”
rJon Voight and Other Jewish Mysteries
Jewish Journal
August 26, 1999
One of the enduring mysteries of Los Angeles Jewish life is Jon Voight. Each year, Jews turn on their televisions to see the Oscar-winning actor, who isn\’t Jewish, dancing the hora with a Chassidic rabbi, appealing to viewers to give money to the rabbi\’s cause, and generally looking like a yeshiva bocher on Simchat Torah.
The Man in the Middle
Jewish Journal
August 26, 1999
Rabbi Michael Melchior of Jerusalem has one heck of a job ahead of him.
Newly appointed to Ehud Barak\’s Cabinet, he\’s got the unenviable assignment of trying to make Jews get along with each other.
Pulling Together
Jewish Journal
August 26, 1999
The week of Aug. 10 was a horrifying and difficult one for our Jewish community.
Community Briefs
Jewish Journal
August 26, 1999
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Sunday Night Fever
Naomi Pfefferman
August 26, 1999
You\’re flipping the TV dial, and you come across something so incongruous that you\’re riveted: Bob Dylan and Jon Voight enthusiastically dancing the dervish-like kazatzka with Chassidic Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin.
Rock for the Ages
Scott Benarde
August 26, 1999
In 1995, while on the Florida leg of a concert tour, Bob Dylan walked into Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach and attended Yom Kippur services.
Teaching The Tots
Julie Wiener
August 26, 1999
The field\’s low prestige and low salaries — in the New York area teachers average $20,000 with no benefits — as well as a surge of other career options now available for women, make recruitment of new teachers extremely challenging.
The Let’s Do ‘Dinner Game’
Michael Aushenker
August 26, 1999
Many American filmgoers still aren\’t familiar with Francis Veber. Yet they should be — they\’ve been watching his work for two decades. Sort of.
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