Rabbi Abner Weiss has decided to abandon his prominent position in L.A.\’s Jewish community to lend his expertise and experience to England\’s budding Modern Orthodox community.
\”Blood Simple\” put the brothers on the map (Ethan quit his job as a statistical typist at Macy\’s), and the Coens went on to write, produce and direct a series of off-center, ironic, unsettling fables peopled with vividly drawn cartoon characters.
Carl Birman would like to meet the right man one day. For now, he\’s trying to put the past to rest and advocates celibacy as a way \”to help people figure out their direction in life. It\’s a way to come to terms with feelings without acting on them,\” he says.
For the first time since 1987, and for the first time ever in the original French, \”The Sorrow and the Pity,\” Marcel Ophüls\’ seminal documentary about France under Nazi occupation, comes to the U.S., including Los Angeles, this week.
James D. Stern, 40, a part-owner of the Chicago Bulls, got his chance after breaking into the movie business with \”Michael Jordan: To the Max,\” a successful large-format documentary film about the athlete\’s final days in pro basketball. He quietly secured the rights to Keith Reddin\’s play, \”It\’s the Rage,\” which is now a film dedicated to his murdered friend.
Debrah Constance is the director of A Place Called Home (APCH), a community center and safe house for inner-city kids in South Central.
The meat of the book, \”A Will to Live On: This Is Our Heritage,\” is a review of the 3,000-year history of the Jewish community, the heritage that Joseph Lieberman believes is threatened and in great peril.
Surprises and paradoxes littered the cityscapes of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi during my two-week April trip to Vietnam.
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