Zane\’s claims, after all, to keep the only Glatt kosher sausage factory in Los Angeles. And the place is so spotlessly clean you\’d be surprised all sorts of meats are prepared right there. \”The Orthodox come in,\” said Mr. Price, 57, a Sabra with a thick Israeli accent, \”and say they haven\’t seen anything like this — not even in New York!\”
In Los Angeles, the hardest part of starting a big trip can be getting from the entrance ramp onto the freeway.
By the end of his first year at HUC in Cincinnati, Rabbi Richard Levy was well on his way to keeping kosher, to wearing a kippah full-time and to observing a traditional Shabbat.
Jennifer Maisel, who\’s been described as \”David Lynch with estrogen,\” explores child abuse, insanity, suicide, rape. In \”Mating Season,\” a young man sets out to supply all the local sperm banks. In \”Mad Love,\” a 13-year-old girl begs a Christmas-tree salesman to rescue her from her incestuous father. Now comes \”Eden,\” the tale of a suicidal woman with AIDS who withdraws from her friends and her optimistic mother, a Holocaust survivor.
Buford O. Furrow Jr. will be tried first in federal court on charges of murdering a U.S. postal carrier.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
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