\nWhile violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians have captured the headlines in recent weeks, Jewish and Arab leaders in major American cities are working quietly to forestall confrontations between their communities.\n\nTheir efforts are marked by some common guidelines.
Forget her 28 Vogue magazine covers.\n\nIsabella Rossellini, mit sheitl, is portraying a Chassidic Jewish woman in actor Jeroen Krabbe\’s post-Holocaust saga, \”Left Luggage.\” It\’s the most unexpected casting of the season.
here are some 39 million refugees and displaced persons in the world today, and Angelenos can get a hint of how they live and survive at \”A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City\” exhibition, now in Exposition Park through Oct. 22.
Back when Rod Lurie was the meanest film critic in L.A., he used to gush about actress Joan Allen on his KABC radio show. The guy who once called Danny DeVito a \”testicle with legs\” lauded Allen as \”the greatest working actor in the world.\” \”I\’d manage to slip that in every other week,\” admits the Israeli-born critic-turned-director, whose debut film, \”Deterrence,\” revolved around a Jewish U.S. president in crisis. Allen had heard all about the fawning critic, so she was receptive when he offered to write a screenplay for her in 1998.
\”Good vs. evil is boring,\” Samuel G. Freedman likes to tell his students at Columbia University\’s Graduate School of Journalism. \”The real drama is in competing visions of good.\”
Humankind has proved itself almost infinitely resilient in its ability to, if not forgive, then at least put out of mind terrible atrocities and acts of cruelty perpetrated in wartime.
Imagine having a career where you killed time by palling around with Bob Hope, photographing Marilyn Monroe, enjoying a beverage at Marlon Brando\’s Hollywood Hills home. Murray Garrett had that career.\n
Intifada loosely means \”shaking off,\” and Palestinians were said to be trying to shake off the Israeli occupation. The name made so much sense that even Israelis used it.
\”What I remember about \’67,\” he said, \”is that we got a phone call to come to a rally and then we were all there.\”
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