Breaking the Boredom Curse
Rabbi Sherre Zwelling Hirsch
September 29, 2005
As a child I was so bored in synagogue that I hid novels in the creases of my prayer book.
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September 29, 2005
Young Jews Choose Offbeat Expression
Sue Fishkoff
September 29, 2005
A new study of Jews in their 20s and 30s reveals that though these young people are underaffiliated with traditional institutions, many have a strongly defined Jewish identity that they express in creative new ways outside synagogues, Jewish Community Centers and the federation system.
In the Seats Around You
Meredith Jacobs
September 29, 2005
The High Holidays make your mind wander — wander around the people around you and no longer around you.
Mamet Serves Feast of Foul Language
Gaby Friedman
September 29, 2005
When actor Steven Goldstein started reading David Mamet\’s new play, \”Romance,\” he was thrown by the relentlessly foul language.
Reviews of the play, which ran in New York for two and a half months, generally appreciated the humor in the obscenity and racial-epithet laden play. And many in the audience laughed raucously, although others exited the theater by the second act.
Now, L.A. theater patrons will be able to judge for themselves. The play opened this week at the Mark Taper Forum.
Cantor Carries on Tennis Tradition
Tom Tugend
September 29, 2005
Located at Beverly and Crescent Heights boulevards, Beth Israel was founded in 1899 as the first Orthodox congregation in Los Angeles, and was also known as the Olive Street Shul.
Face It: Judaism Is Not Hip
Gary Wexler
September 29, 2005
I was an advertising agency copywriter and creative director. I was trained to be one of the manufacturers of hip. I would sit in offices and create hip, and then watch all those people lust after the creations. I reveled in hip.
Community Briefs
David Finnigan
September 29, 2005
Soulful \’Hatikvah\’ Ends Wiesenthal Farewell
It was an unscripted, final moment that may have best captured the Monday memorial at the Museum of Tolerance for Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died last week at age 96.
The ceremony had been held outside. As long lines of mourners waited amidst rows of folded chairs to return into the museum, an elderly, white-haired man began singing Israel\’s national anthem, \”Hatikvah,\” in a loud, lone voice. A ripple of applause followed after Gedalia Arditti, a 77-year-old Greek Jew, belted out the song\’s last word — \”Yer-u-shal-a-yim!\”
Krugel Gets 20 Years for Bomb Plot
Jim Crogan
September 29, 2005
The proceedings brought an apparent close to a case that briefly riveted national attention in the immediate wake of the terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists on Sept. 11, 2001.
Exhibit Links Shoah, Cambodia Genocide
Robert David Jaffee
September 29, 2005
The juxtaposition of a Jew (Schanberg) and a Cambodian with the defaced Star of David subtly links the Holocaust, a genocide of the past, to the more recent Cambodian tragedy.
It is the synchronicity between peoples who have been massacred that inspired the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to exhibit \”Encountering the Cambodian Genocide.\” The exhibit features the photographs of Chantal Prunier, who visited Cambodia in the past year and came back with haunting images of mass graves, torture devices and survivors.
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