Southern California\’s economy already has withstood the past year\’s downturn — and the cataclysmic events of Sept. 11 — better than many competing regions.
It used to be said that kabbalah should only be studied by the very old or very learned, otherwise it could inspire madness. In his book \”Practical Kabbalah: A Guide to Jewish Wisdom in Everyday Life,\” Rabbi Laibl Wolf attempts both to dispel the mythology surrounding this ancient, mystical teaching and to demonstrate its necessity for those of us living in the modern world.
Gift bags for the Women\’s Care Cottage and Gramercy Housing Group were decorated and assembled at Stephen S. Wise Temple in Bel Air.
Two of the great names in the American theater — Strasberg and Davidson — are joining talents to present a play about artistic loyalty and betrayal during the McCarthy era of the 1950s.
David Krumholtz has a theory about why he\’s played so many charming but zhlubby Jewish guys in film and on television.
Edward Burns tells a story to illustrate why he was inspired to write his multicultural comedy, \”Sidewalks of New York,\” featuring characters from Puerto Rican to Jewish to everything in between. \”I was on a Manhattan movie set, and this Catholic woman goes, \’My son has his confirmation, I have a baptism to go to, and Sunday is Easter — oy vey,\’\” the Irish American filmmaker recalls. \”You get that because we\’re all thrown together on the sidewalks of New York. You step out of your apartment, and you\’re immediately confronted with representatives of every ethnicity.\”
Abby Kirban and Georg Hartmann initially kept quiet about falling in love after she auditioned for a play he directed in Los Angeles in 1997.
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