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Saturday, November 12 Temple Isaiah’s Festival of Jewish Artisans returns for its 25th year this weekend. Help celebrate and stock up on Chanukah presents and other Judaica by attending the opening night concert, artists reception and preview sale today, or artisans show and sale and children’s concert tomorrow. 7:30 p.m. (Sat.), 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. (Sun.). $2-$50. Temple Isaiah, 10345 W. Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles. (310) 277-2772. |
 
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Sunday, November 13 Is marriage between two celebrated authors more gratifying and blissful? Rabbi David Wolpe gets some insight this morning as literary super couple Jonathan Safran Foer (“Everything is Illuminated”) and Nicole Krauss (“Man Walks Into a Room”) grant a rare joint interview at Sinai Temple’s Blumenthal Library. 11 a.m. $15-$20. 10400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 481-3217. |
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Monday, November 14 Delicious, delightful delis are the subject of author Sheryll Bellman’s new book, “America’s Great Delis: Recipes and Traditions from Coast to Coast.” Vintage photos, menus, signs and recipes from America’s best-loved delicatessens crowd the pages of this new release, depicting the slice of Jewish life that became an American institution. $35. Tuesday, November 15 More holidays a-comin’, which means more food. Go beyond the passé deep-fried turkey this year, with the help of the University of Judaism’s “Cooking with Judy Zeidler: A Thanksgiving Dinner.” The author of “The Gourmet Jewish Cook” promises side dish and dessert suggestions, as well as tips on how to cook the bird. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. University of Judaism, 15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air. R.S.V.P., (310) 440-1246. Wednesday, November 16 First-time, 60-something author Myriam Chapman reads and signs her historical fiction novel, based on her grandmother’s memoirs, this evening at Duttons Brentwood. Set in 20th-century France, “Why She Married Him” tells the story of Nina Schavranski, a young Russian Jewish émigré forced into choices that take her away from her dreams. 7 p.m. 11975 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 476-6263. The name alone beckoned us. Now monthly at the Friars of Beverly Hills comes “Hoodzpah! A Black and Jewish Comedy Experience.” Tonight, see stand-up and sketch comedy by Sunda Croonquist, James Harris, Tommy Savitt, Roz Browne and Darren Carter. 7:30 p.m. Free. 9900 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. (310) 443-1992. Thursday, November 17 More unity through comedy today, this time from Middle Easterners of every persuasion. The Levantine Cultural Center presents “Sultans of Satire,” a lineup of comedians headlined by Israeli American Iris Bahr, and featuring Persian Maz Jobrani, Palestinian Mormon Aron Kader, Assyrian New Yorker and Iraq War vet Vince Ouchana, and Peter the Persian, an attorney by day and Iranian comic by night. 8 p.m. $10-$15. 5920 Blackwelder St., Culver City. R.S.V.P., (310) 559-5544. Friday, November 18 Russian Jewish immigrant Eugene Yelchin offers up an intensely emotional series of paintings he has titled “Section Five,” now on view at the Jan Baum Gallery. “‘Section Five’ refers to the fifth section of the former Soviet Union passport, which stated a citizen’s ethnicity,” Yelchin writes. “In the passport I carried until I emigrated from Russia to the U.S., the fifth paragraph listed me as ‘Yevrei,’ Jew.” Yelchin used no brushes, but only his hands, to paint his works that recall passport photos. Through Dec. 21. 170 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 932-0170. The five things we get wrong in Jewish education and what we can all do to improve it. Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community. For generations, Moroccan Jewish mothers and grandmothers prepared their dafina on Friday, knowing that it would sustain their families on Saturday. The five things we get wrong in Jewish education and what we can all do to improve it. We may be able to tolerate an irrational mob that goes after anything associated with Israel, but academics whose lives revolve around the search for truth and knowledge? “Shavua” is an interactive journal woven with Jewish wisdom, inviting readers to pause, reflect and add their own thoughts to an ongoing Jewish conversation. For decades, the world’s biggest musical acts brought their concert tours through Israel: Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Rihanna and Rage Against the Machine. The Haredi Public Party was created because the Haredi public deserves more than excuses, Israeli society deserves more than permanent confrontation, and the Jewish people deserve an Israel capable of reconciling Torah, responsibility and national unity. For more than 30 minutes, approximately 160 delegates took turns denouncing me by name for being a Zionist, and calling Zionism racism. Topp is departing Beth Jacob, where he has served as senior rabbi since 2009. He and his wife, Rebbetzin Jordana, are making aliyah. He didn’t ask the audience to overlook his disability; he showed us how it could become a source of power, beauty and artistic innovation. Rabbi Pini Dunner sees himself as sounding an alarm about what he describes as Qatar’s growing influence and ties to Hamas. These countries plotted – or at least one of them plotted – to advance peace agreements with Israel simply to lull it to sleep ahead of a war at a more convenient time. Or so the “sources” say. I think of how something as simple as a blanket can carry a person’s spirit, their story, their love, their hope. Because antizionists like El-Sayed interweave their antizionism with anti-Americanism and antisemitism, every self-respecting American Jew should work even harder to oppose him. It is crucial that El-Sayed be defeated so the Democratic Party will understand that being taken over by such extremists is the road to electoral oblivion. | |||||||||||||||||
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