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December 8, 2005

Limon’s Company Revives a Classic Dance

Susan Josephs December 8, 2005

The dance, called \”Missa Brevis,\” premiered the following year in a bombed-out church in Budapest and would become a masterpiece of the Limon canon. The June 1958 issue of Dance Magazine declared \”it has been a long time since modern dance has produced a work so profoundly stirring and exalting.\” Carla Maxwell, artistic director of the Jose Limon Dance Company since 1978, called it \”one of those rare, perfect dances. Poland moved Limon profoundly, and from it, he created some of the most glorious choreography.\”

Navel Gazing With Eve Ensler

Naomi Pfefferman December 8, 2005

Some years ago, playwright-performer Eve Ensler became mortified by her not-so-flat, post-40s belly. She starved herself, hired a trainer and watched late-night Ab-Roller infomercials. She compulsively worked the treadmill and even fantasized about contracting a parasite.

Three Museum Shows Span Gamut of Arts

Ed Rampell December 8, 2005

Architecture is for the photographer Julius Shulman what green peppers and sand dunes were for Edward Weston or Yosemite for Ansel Adams. Born in 1910, Shulman\’s iconic images have become a staple of every book or magazine that touches on the subject of modern architecture.

Punk Princesses: Jews With Attitude

George Robinson December 8, 2005

There were always Jews in punk, even before there was punk.

\”It really begins with Lenny Bruce,\” says Steven Beeber, whose new book \”The Heebie Jeebies at CBGBs: A Secret History of Jewish Punk,\” will be published next year by A Capella Books. \”Bruce sort of epitomizes the attitude, the whole smart-ass, clever truth-telling.\”

In fact, the punk attitude is also a Jewish attitude that begins with the midrash, in which Abram smashes all but one of his father\’s household idols and blames the sole survivor for the wreckage.

Nathan Takes a Bite Out of Boring Fare

Keren Engelberg December 8, 2005

\”I never think of food as something that\’s stationary,\” Nathan said on a recent book tour stop in Los Angeles. \”Things change, neighborhoods change, food changes, we get new ingredients, people get ideas. And when you come to a country you adapt what you knew to that country.\”

Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Irv

Hank Rosenfeld December 8, 2005

When Irving S. Brecher was writing the Marx Brothers\’ movie, \”At the Circus,\” in 1938, he got into trouble with the Hollywood censors.

Snip Judgment

Calev Ben-David December 8, 2005

If you were circumcised as an adult and have experienced sexual relations both before and afterward, then Emily Bazelon wants to know about it. Why that concerns me — and may concern you — takes a little explaining.

France Tirelessly Battles Anti-Semitism

Philippe Larrieu December 8, 2005

Since the French Revolution guaranteed their full civil and political rights, French Jews have played a major role in the development of the French republican ideal and model. A list, from that time onward, of the French political leaders tied to the community, illustrated by real statesmen and women, would simply be too long. Not to mention artists, scientists, philosophers, writers, actors and musicians, spiritual figures.

Preschool Project Strives to Educate All

Rabbi Eli Hecht December 8, 2005

King Solomon was known to have coined the expression, \”Educate the child accordingly so that when he grows old, he will not leave.\” In other words, take advantage of the child\’s education as soon as possible.

In modern times, this admonition certainly applies to preschool, and it\’s something that my day care school, the Bilowit Learning Center, based in the Lomita-Torrance area, has always taken as a mission.

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