Although \”Trembling Before G-d\” has enjoyed a successful theatrical run in Los Angeles, drawing in theatergoers is only part of the mission of Sandi Simcha DuBowski\’s documentary about gay Orthodox Jews struggling to reconcile conflicting parts of their identities.
Satirist Charlie Varon has a vision of the Messianic age, and it\’s, well, crowded: "If everyone who ever lived ends up in Jerusalem, where\’re you going to put 12 billion people?"
The frothy if sometimes clichéd romance, a lesbian take on \”Sex and the Single Girl,\” puts a new spin on the saga of the befuddled single woman (\”Annie Hall\” meets \”Bridget Jones\’ Diary\”).
While not every piece is to my liking, every work in the show has a point.
Jewish (and other) radio listeners will be able to time travel back to the world of their immigrant ancestors when "The Yiddish Radio Project" debuts March 19 on stations coast-to-coast.
Two Cal State University (CSU) students spending their junior year on a foreign campus are enthusiastic about their experience. Ayelet Arbel loves the beautiful campus setting, the nearby beaches, the unique cultural exposure and the vibrant city life. Adam Ascherin is most impressed by the philosophy and outlook of the local people and their ready acceptance of strangers into their extended national family.\n\nThe good news, says their resident advisor Norma Tarrow, education professor at Cal State Long Beach, is that her two charges have quickly integrated into life at Haifa University and enjoy mingling with students from Europe, Canada and the East Coast states, as well as with local Arab and Druse classmates. Tarrow was among CSU faculty, who, together with the Jewish Public Affairs Committee, persuaded the administration to reinstate its overseas program in Israel after it was canceled following the outbreak of the intifada in September of 2000.\n\nThe bad news, she says, is that there are only two students from Cal State, and unless at least eight to 10 students enroll in the Israel program for the fall semester, the Cal State administration — which pays for her salary and heavily subsidizes the program — will probably have to cancel it for budgetary reasons.\n\n
It was a great idea: a restaurant gathering at Tomayo\’s, an East Los Angeles eatery known for its vibrant Latino cultural life, hosted by Israel\’s consul general in Los Angeles, that would unite Los Angeles\’ Jews and Latinos.
Auschwitz survivor Tibor (Ted) Deutsch will never forget the dark day in 1944 that forever shaped his life. Deutsch was only 16 when he and his older brother, Georg, were among the 1,000 Jews assigned to slave labor at a Trzebinia subcamp assigned to the service the venerable German construction company Hochtief.
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