Syndicating Purim
Esther D. Kustanowitz
February 23, 2007
\”Everyone puts Purim on the calendar, but sometimes the spiel gets short shrift,\” says Rob Kutner, a staff writer for \”The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.\”
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Up Front
The Jewish accent’s on France at FeujLA
Sara Shereen Bakhshian
February 15, 2007
With a name derived from the slang word feuj — for Jew — with L.A. tagged on, this hip crowd of young French and some Francophiles came together to catch up with friends, meet new people and listen to and perform favorite Hebrew and Jewish songs.
Reality radio goes kosher
Orit Arfa
February 1, 2007
\”In religious communities, especially the Charedi communities, people don\’t have televisions at home. Whereas a secular person comes home after work and turns on the TV to watch news, a religious person comes home and turns on the radio,\” said Ido Lebovitz, CEO of Radio Kol Chai.
Jews get short shrift at Oscar nominations
Tom Tugend
January 25, 2007
Whereas in past years one could at least count on Steven Spielberg or a Holocaust documentary to provide a snappy lead for a story in the Jewish media, this year the pickings were slim, indeed.
The fab fundraising fifth-grader
Amy Klein
January 18, 2007
Many people took it upon themselves to raise vast sums of money for Israel during the conflict with Lebanon this summer, but how many were still in elementary school?
Today’s Task: Be an Angel
Amy Klein
December 28, 2006
\”God has a to-do list for you,\” the book opens. \”You are God\’s partner. God needs you to continue the ongoing creation of the world.\”
Uri Geller bends self into Israel ‘reality TV’ stardom
Orit Arfa
December 21, 2006
Geller is most famous for bending spoons \”with his mind,\” a feat that commonly figures into legends, jokes and parodies about him, although the contestants perform more sophisticated stunts on the show.
A Chanukah for the party people
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2006
On the first night of Chanukah my true love gave to me…social justice? That\’s the theme of one of the hottest parties of the Chanukah season, \”Vodka Latka: The Festival of Rights,\” sponsored by the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), JDub Records and Reboot on Dec. 13 at the El Rey Theatre in Mid-Wilshire.
A kosher steakhouse for BH? Well done!
Roberto Loiederman
November 30, 2006
New York\’s upscale The Prime Grill, coming to Beverly Hills this week, isn\’t your father\’s glatt kosher restaurant.For one thing, it\’s a high-end steak house that also specializes in sushi. For another, the management expects it to become a destination for high-powered meetings and high-profile celebrities.They go so far as to claim that the opening here means Los Angeles is finally catching up to New York in the Jewish culinary big leagues.
Carry On! Venice community gets an eruv approved
Tom Tugend
November 22, 2006
The Shul on the Beach, formally known as the Pacific Jewish Center (PJC), has crowned four years of negotiations to install an eruv along the Pacific shoreline and inland area.The historic Orthodox congregation in Venice finally won approval from the California Coastal Commission to create an unbroken symbolic border to allow observant families to carry basic necessities and push baby strollers beyond the confines of the home on the Sabbath.
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