With French Jews complaining about a rise in anti-Semitic violence, there appears to be a sharp increase in the number of people inquiring about immigrating to Israel.
An editorial cartoon that ran on the Editorials & Letters page of the Los Angeles Daily News on Dec. 21 outraged readers with an image that confused as much as it provoked.
In the parsha four weeks ago, Shimon and Levi, sons of Jacob, got the last word. But on his deathbed in this week\’s parsha, Jacob has one final opportunity to deliver his rejoinder.
As I write this, I look like James Coburn eating a lemon in a windstorm. Drunk. Not only does my face look red and crackly, it must be covered at all times with a Vaseline-like lotion, thick and greasy, giving me the appearance of someone who has just eaten a pork chop with no hands. And I lack Mr. Coburn\’s panache.
\”The Grandfather Thing\” by Saul Turteltaub (Tallfellow Press, $16.95).\n\nSaul Turteltaub, whom I\’ve known for a good many years, is a funny man and a funny television writer. If you laughed at \”The Carol Burnett Show,\” \”The Jackie Gleason Show,\” \”That Girl\” or \”The Cosby Show,\” tip your hat to Turteltaub, because they are among the 30 major TV shows he has written or produced over a 40- year span.
In my family, death and funerals seem to inspire joking. Maybe it\’s discomfort, but it also seems to be a lack of concern and heaviness about the whole thing. No one in my family does much visiting of graves, and burials are apparently not deemed necessary.
His leather jacket underscoring a full-growth white beard and tzitzit, 75-year-old Lupu Gutman is much like his films, where tradition is refracted through the modernity of the camera lens.
When Julie Korenstein speaks out on environmental matters, she credits her mother, Dr. Pauline Furth, with shaping her own crusading spirit. Korenstein, who represents District 6 on the Los Angeles Unified School District\’s school board, said that throughout her life her mother has been \”the most important influence on me personally.\”
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