This segment of richly documented history is more than 400 years old, but its theatrical representation now speaks to the evolution of modern Los Angeles as a vibrant center of both Hispanic and Jewish life and art.
\”Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York,\” represents the largest collection ever amassed of Jewish silversmith work.
\”It was a gargantuan risk,\” says Mark Ordesky of the studio\’s decision to gamble $270 million on a project never before attempted in film history: making three films at once on a 274-day shooting schedule. \”Without question, my job was at stake.\”
Tori Spelling knew she had something to prove when she took on the physical comedy, \”Maybe, Baby, It\’s You,\” a two-person play about relationships at the Coronet Theatre.
Action Israel offered intensive strategy and communications training in order to equip students with the tools necessary to counteract anti-Israeli sentiment.
Karen Fiske has been teaching at Jewish schools in Southern California for 21 years, but she sends her two daughters to public school because she can\’t afford the high tuition at local Jewish day schools.
Ask Boris Dralyuk about his student days at Fairfax High School and the impish young man with startlingly blue eyes will mockingly compare himself to one of the great anti-heroes of literature. \”I know about the experiences of Saul Bellow\’s Augie March and the little Jewish kids growing up in tough urban areas, but Los Angeles is not one of those places. There is very little in common between the Lower East Side and Los Angeles. It\’s not a battle to grow up here. It is not a struggle.\”
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