Skirball Re-Dedication
Naomi Pfefferman
December 2, 1999
The Skirball Cultural Center will dedicate its expanded and redesigned galleries on Sunday (Dec. 5) during an all-day Chanukah family festival.
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December 2, 1999
Preservation Efforts
Tom Tugend
December 2, 1999
In a huge tent on the Universal Studios lot, crammed with computer gear and large television screens, Steven Spielberg last week unveiled his high-tech master plan to transmit and preserve the living testimony of Holocaust survivors for this and future generations.
Sewing Controversy At Museum of Tolerance
Eric Roth
December 2, 1999
Visitors to the Museum of Tolerance expect to encounter evidence of brutality and organized evil. The current third floor exhibit, built around a reconstruction of a slave factory with barbed wire, and featuring video testimonials from survivors, seems predictable enough.
Yet the events documented didn\’t happen in Eastern Europe during the 1940s. The victims were rescued by government authorities, and the illegal garment factory imprisoning 73 Thai workers was located in El Monte, California in the early 1990s.
Jewish Federation: The Generation Next
Michael Aushenker
December 2, 1999
Perhaps his choice of reading material best sums up Todd Morgan\’s worldview.
Lighting the Darkness
Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer
December 2, 1999
With the simple act of lighting a candle, you can illuminate an entire room. Add a mirror, and you have twice as much light. So, too with people. We all carry internal sparks, rays of light within. But sometimes it takes another person to show us how to release them to ourselves and to the world.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Teresa Strasser
December 2, 1999
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had occasion to peer into two almost antithetical worlds of matchmaking. The first: a do-it-yourself option courtesy of a Jewish dating service on the Internet. The second: \”Old School\” Jewish Matchmaking like a picture postcard sent through time from Anatevka.
Hank Azaria Spends “Tuesdays With Morrie.”
Ivor Davis
December 2, 1999
Hollywood has found its Jewish comfort zone in \”Tuesdays with Morrie,\” the ABC television movie version of Mitch Albom\’s best selling book.
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