Community Briefs
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
For Federation executives and board members, 6505 Wilshire is more than just another building. It is a monument to years of memories; an edifice awash in nostalgic value.
Thirty-three Reform rabbis, men and women from the United States and Canada, held their mixed-gender minyan at the Western Wall on Monday, protected by police barricades and dozens of cops, as a mob of more than 100 haredi yeshiva students hollered abuse at them.
I don\’t know about you, but I am often drawn to men and women who are boldly stamped by commitment. What I like is that they pursue an idea no matter where it takes them, simply because of their belief or passion.
Every so often, the cultural gap between Israelis and American Jews yawns open so wide, you could almost fall in and break your leg.
\”There was no magic to our survival. It was sheer, pure, unadulterated luck, for men and women infinitely more worthy perished,\” Congressman Tom Lantos said at an advance screening of \”The Last Days.\”
When I first started out as a journalist, fresh from graduate school, I thought of my profession as that of the perennial outsider, a stranger who would pack up and leave the next day.
When David Mamet, the son of brilliant but emotionally abusive parents, was growing up in Chicago, his mother told him, according to The New Yorker profile of the playwright, \”I love you, but I don\’t like you.\”
At the height of the Yom Kippur War, when Israel was rushing all available combat troops to the Syrian and Egyptian fronts, an Israeli official was asked who was defending the eastern border. \”King Hussein,\” he replied, \”as usual.\”