Establishment of a $4.2 million humanitarian fund to aid needy Holocaust survivors in California has been delayed by bureaucratic snafus for almost a year, but there are strong hopes that the fund will finally be operative by the end of the year.
\”Sugihara\” tells of the diplomat who defied his government by issuing thousands of visas to help Jews flee Kovno, Lithuania, on the cusp of the Shoah.
\”The reason SEC exists is to catch up to the Ashkenazi world, to show the overall Jewish experience,\” Neil Sheff explains. \”Come to the festival and you\’ll learn about the \’other\’ Jews.\”
At a groundbreaking and consecration ceremony at the site of Kol Ami\’s future building, leaders of the Los Angeles and West Hollywood communities, as well as leading Los Angeles rabbis, offered support and congratulations.
The RAW anthologies not only influenced alternative cartoonists, but publishers of alternative cartoonists such as Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly continue to present alternative comics with reverence in classy, lush formats.
Two film festivals are offering sneak peeks of the best Jewish movies of the year.
Wendy Belzberg is as comfortable swapping brisket recipes as she is discussing quantum physics. However, because of her strong Jewish background, many – but by no means all – of the questions she receives tend to have some Jewish content. Don\’t expect a traditional response; she can be extremely controversial and, on more than one occasion, has had to write from a safe house to hide out from irate rabbis.
\”Kippur,\” the first Israeli movie to grace the New York Film Festival, tackles the traumatic war that was previously taboo in Israeli cinema.
It is a fact that most Jewish Americans do not possess the bilingual skills necessary in which to truly live up to their name. Yes, being a fully expressed Jew actually does have something to do with the Hebrew language.
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