When I got the call from Montreal, fortunately I was sitting down. The woman said her name was Bryna Wasserman, and she wanted to produce a musical based on the film I had made about Harry Houdini in 1976.
The Yiddishkayt Los Angeles Festival zings along as recording artist and VBS Children\’s Music Director Cindy Paley presents songs and stories from her latest recording \”Zing Along.\”
\”I think the experience of going through [Bar Mitzvah] when it meant something to me personally and spiritually… was so much richer an experience than it might have been doing it as a stupid 13-year-old kid.\” – Ron, almost 30 at the time of his Bar Mitzvah
Who would have thought that living next to the prime minister\’s house would be such a good move for a single Jewish woman?
The future of American Jewish music – which has an awful lot in common with its past and present – was spread out in all its diversity on May 2, when the American Jewish Music Festival returned to Los Angeles after a three-year absence.
Dear Deborah,
I have recently begun dating after a 25-year marriage ended and I\’m having big culture shock.
In Philip Roth\’s new novel, \”The Human Stain,\” a classics professor at a small New England college creates a fictional identity for himself.
Dr. Gary J. Schiller is an associate professor at UCLA, so perhaps it is not surprising that the new chairman of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust puts education and research at the top of his agenda.Schiller\’s accession also marks a generational change.
This Tuesday, one day before Israel celebrated its 52nd Independence Day, it solemnly and collectively honored the 19,109 soldiers, sailors and airmen who have died in defense of the reborn state since the United Nations voted to partition British Palestine on November 29, 1947.
Holocaust denier David Irving has come a step closer to financial ruin now that a British judge has ordered him to start paying millions of dollars in legal costs.
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