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October 25, 2001

Advice for Israeli Filmmakers

Zvi Howard Rosenman October 25, 2001

I\’m sitting in the cockpit of an F-16 fighter jet on an Israeli Air Force (IAF)base. A friend of mine is an F-16 fighter pilot, an American-born Israeli who just finished his MBA at Harvard Business School and is doing his monthly stint in the reserves. He knew that I had just sold a project about the formation of the IAF to Dreamworks\’ ImageMovers, a subsidiary owned by Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke.

Dan Gordon (\”Hurricane\”) is the writer. This is a project dear to our hearts, since both Dan and I have deep Israeli roots. Dan, an American, volunteered to join the IAF in October 1973.

A Tale of Two Fighters

Tom Tugend October 25, 2001

\”Maybe heroes should be watched from a distance. They\’re important in time of war, but not so comfortable in time of peace,\” muses Arnost Lustig toward the end of the documentary \”Fighter.\”\n\nLustig is talking about Jan Wiener, the film\’s title character and Lustig\’s traveling companion in a journey back in time and space to the stations of the Holocaust, which both survived.

Calendar & Singles

Solange Borna October 25, 2001

Community calendar of events around Los Angeles.

The Circuit

Michael Aushenker October 25, 2001

The Circuit, information on events around los angeles.\n

The Anti-Semitic Blame Game

Ruth Stroud October 25, 2001

Is anti-Semitism on the rise since Sept. 11? Answers vary, depending on whom you ask.

\”We haven\’t seen a resurgence of anti-Semitism since the Sept. 11 attacks,\” observed Amy Levy, a spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League\’s Pacific Southwest Region, which encompasses most of Southern California. Others, such as Rabbi Meyer May, executive director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, have reported increased verbal assaults.

UCLA Wins Grant

Tom Tugend October 25, 2001

The Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA, only seven years old, has received one of academe\’s highest recognitions, a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the study of Jewish Civilizations. It is the only one this year awarded for Jewish studies, the only one for UCLA and one of only seven awarded to American universities.\n\n

7 Days In Arts

Solange Borna October 25, 2001

7 days in the Arts, around Los Angeles.

House Work

Mike Levy October 25, 2001

Los Angeles\’ five Jewish members in the House of Representatives hold a number of important committee and subcommittee leadership roles integral to guiding the war on terror. The Jewish Journal went to the source to find out what Americans can expect, as security challenges at home and abroad add stress to our daily lives and our political relationship with Israel.

Turn a New Page

Ami Eden October 25, 2001

Leaders of Conservative Judaism have argued from their pulpits for more than 50 years that the Torah is a divinely inspired document that evolved over centuries, rather than the product of a single encounter with God at Mount Sinai. Starting this month, their congregants will finally be able to follow along in the pews with a Conservative Bible commentary that says the same thing.

Local Victory

Julie Gruenbaum Fax October 25, 2001

The publication of the \”Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary\” points to a significant achievement for the Los Angeles Jewish community. The Chumash is the first Torah and Haftarah commentary published by the Conservative movement.

\”The Conservative movement doesn\’t begin and end in New York City,\” said Rabbi David Lieber, senior editor of \”Etz Hayim\” and president emeritus of the University of Judaism (UJ) in Los Angeles. \”It is clear that we\’re dealing with a worldwide movement,\” says Lieber, who served as UJ\’s president for 29 years before he retired in 1993, and was the first West Coast president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the Conservative movement\’s rabbinic arm, from 1996-1998. He was also instrumental in the 1996 founding of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies — the first place outside of New York to ordain Conservative rabbis.

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