Guarding the entrance to Bodegas Barberis, a family-owned winery in western Argentina, is a small ceramic statue of the Virgin Mary, known locally as the Virgen de la Carrodilla.
>\”People call me a provocateur,\” filmmaker Todd Solondz said. \”I\’d say that\’s fair.\” Peering out from his oversized thick green glasses, dressed in rose-colored pants, a nubbly gray sweater and yellow sneakers, Solondz looks the part of independent cinema\’s presiding nerd incendiary.
Why is this night different from all other nights? For one thing, it\’s the food — or, rather, the food that\’s featured on television. But there\’s also plenty of food for thought in the form of Passover-related travel and Jewish news features.
Conducting the family seder, attorney Robert Hirschman became frustrated with commercial haggadahs, so he made his own.
A Los Angeles rabbi has retracted his charge that Mayor James Hahn\’s re-election campaign was \”dishonest and manipulative\” in claiming endorsements from Jewish community leaders.
Roberta Weintraub used to be a technophobe. But that was before she decided to launch High Tech High, a public charter school in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that integrates technology and education.
The battle over the future of the Gaza Strip has come to Los Angeles.
Jahangir Javaheri lived a full life in Iran as a pharmaceutical retailer, complete with a nice car, large house and the esteem and satisfaction that came with being a leader within the nation\’s small but cohesive Jewish community.
Keep passing. Keep passing.\” It\’s 6 a.m. on a Monday morning in March, and students from Milken Community High School, wearing hairnets, plastic aprons and gloves, are dishing out hot cereal, sugar, applesauce, milk and a muffin assembly-line style onto blue trays.
In the beginning, there was sweet wine. Really, really sweet wine. But as the kosher market broadened, a trickle of new wines targeted to a more sophisticated audience began to raise expectations among Jewish wine lovers.
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