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April 18, 2002

Sex, Lies and Audio ‘Tape’

Naomi Pfefferman April 18, 2002

Stephen Belber is sitting in a cafe next door to the Coast Playhouse, now showing his noir drama \”Tape,\” charmingly professing he\’s not the world\’s greatest playwright. Never mind that \”Tape\” — which was turned into a 2001 Richard Linklater film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard — is being compared to the work of Sam Shephard and Edward Albee. \”That\’s just silly,\” says the warm, athletic, boyish-looking author. \”Put any Sam Shephard play next to \’Tape,\’ and it\’s just laughable.\”

Klezmer: Backward and Forward

Paul Wieder April 18, 2002

Three new klezmer recordings offer a listen into the genre\’s past, present and possible future.

Klezmer was originally the soundtrack to the Jewish wedding, but no band has attempted to recreate such an event until recently. Working with people who were in Eastern Europe at the time klezmer was developed, the band Budowitz — named for the maker of their accordionist\’s instrument — crafted \”Wedding Without a Bride\” (Buda Musique, $18.98).

I’m a Survivor!

Michael Aushenker April 18, 2002

On this April day, Drescher converses in a lackadaisical, morning-after drone that is, quite frankly, downright seductive.\n\nYet the topic of conversation — uterine cancer — is not sexy. Drescher feels that it is imperative to talk about the deadly disease and why women need to be proactive in discerning it. Her new memoir, \”Cancer Schmancer\” (Warner Books, $24.95), in stores May 1, chronicles her own experience detecting and surviving uterine cancer. \”Cancer Schmancer\” also documents a new chapter in her life. When her best-selling autobiography \”Enter Whining\” was released in late 1995, Drescher was the envy of Hollywood both for her storybook romance to high school sweetheart Peter Marc Jacobson and her serendipitous rise to fame in the 1990s. On a plane ride, the then-unknown actress sold her idea for \”The Nanny\” after pitching the concept to a CBS executive that happened to be seated next to her.

The Circuit

Michael Aushenker April 18, 2002

The Circuit, information on events around los angeles.\n

Conflicts on Campus

Rachel Brand April 18, 2002

\”Israel Independence Day, 2002 and Counting…\” read the sea of royal blue T-shirts adorning members of the UCLA Jewish Student Union (JSU) — a positive statement at a time when Jewish students are receiving a great deal of negative publicity on college campuses across the country.

More than 120 Jewish students, including JSU members, gathered at UCLA\’s Meyerhoff Park on April 11 to oppose an anti-Zionist rally organized by the Peace and Justice Coalition. The coalition, a new group on the UCLA campus, is an alliance of student organizations, including the Muslim Student Association, the African Student Union, Samahang Filipino, the Asian Pacific Coalition, the Vietnamese Student Union, Concerned Asian Pacific-Islander Students for Action, the United Arab Society, the Iranian Student Group and the Pakistani Student Association.

The Mideast Comes to L.A.

Gene Lichtenstein April 18, 2002

I suppose there has always been a division between Jews who are affiliated and those who are not. Two separate worlds. The first wears the definition with pride: The Jewish Community. The second by default or distrust or indifference, or maybe choice, seems to be cast adrift, at least from fellow Jews who make up the \”community.\” Now, with the crisis in the Middle East heating up, with American foreign policy suddenly thrust into the very center of the action, with Europe turning against Israel and European crowds singling out Jews, the question arises: Will the two groups come together, accept a common Jewish identity? On the basis of partial evidence, I would say, not in Los Angeles. Or, at least, not yet.

Physician, Heal The Soul

Mike Levy April 18, 2002

Physicians played a significant role in the Holocaust, and today\’s doctors can learn from the ethical failures of that period, according to an article recently published by Dr. Joel Geiderman, co-chair of the emergency department (ED) of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

In \”Physician Complicity in the Holocaust: Historical Review and Reflections on Emergency Medicine in the 21st Century,\” Geiderman sets out a series of moral failures he attributes to German physicians before, during and after WWII. Published in the March issue of Academic Emergency Medicine journal, the two-part article enumerates ethical challenges requiring greater vigilance from today\’s physicians.

Sex Ed for Parents

Wendy Mogel April 18, 2002

Somewhere in America, a few high school students made a porno video, \”by accident\” they said, starring themselves. Whatever it was, a couple of kids were fooling around, and someone else had a camera. They showed the tape in the locker room and what followed was, of course, a big scandal. Somewhere else in America, there was an eighth-grade party, mom or dad took pictures, and when the photos came back from the lab, you could see two partygoers having oral sex near the shrubbery in the background of one of the shots. What upset the parents most was that the students weren\’t even trying to hide.

Remember the Roots of the JCCs

Steve Sass April 18, 2002

Talk about irony.

With the theme \”JCCs as Community Builders,\” representatives from Jewish community centers from throughout the continent will gather at the Century Plaza for four days beginning April 21 for the Jewish Community Centers (JCC) of North America\’s 2002 Biennial conference.

The Heart and Marrow of a Century

Miriyam Glazer April 18, 2002

From the vantage point of our already traumatic new millennium, \”Old Men at Midnight,\” celebrated author Chaim Potok\’s latest collection of three novellas, requires us to look back in anguish at a wrenching picture of the 20th century.

\”This America of yours is not a country that values history,\” says the character Mr. Zapiski, a World War I soldier who has become a melancholy teacher of Torah trope in New York. \”Where I was raised, history was the heart and marrow of a person.\” That is why, as she herself moves from teenager to older woman in this collection, Ilana Davita Dinn, who first appeared in Potok\’s 1985 novel \”Davita\’s Harp,\” persists in eliciting from each of the main characters the personal story, however wrenching, of their lives.

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