Los Angeles will welcome the 18th Annual Israel Film Festival this month, with 31 Israeli feature films, documentaries, TV dramas and student shorts to be screened at Laemmle\’s Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills and at Laemmle\’s Town Center 5 in Encino.
In the 1948 film "Gentleman\’s Agreement," Phil Green, changing his last name to Greenberg, passes as a Jew in order to write a searing exposé of anti-Semitism.
Two Jewish pioneers of the popular culture, comedian Milton Berle and director Billy Wilder, died last week in Los Angeles.
One of the first things Gene Simmons reveals in his new autobiography, "Kiss and Make-Up," is that he is the child of a Holocaust survivor.
In the forward to "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust," animal rights activist and daughter of Holocaust survivors, Lucy Rosen Kaplan, states: "I came to understand that the oppression of nonhumans on this Earth eclipses even the ordeal survived by my parents."
So in a nutshell, here\’s how the first Celebrity Dodgeball Tournament went down…
Colleagues in faith, we must act together now. We owe it to our respective faiths and our common calling.
A Passover appeal by Rabbi David Wolpe at Sinai Temple raised $700,000 in pledges for organizations in Israel helping victims of terror.
Turns out the Frisco Kid wasn\’t the only Jewish cowboy. Kicking off the exhibition >\”Jewish Life in the American West: Generation to Generation\” at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage is a music concert titled \”Jews in the West.\”
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