The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion once again presents the annual \”L.A. County Holiday Celebration.\” Offering counterbalance to the \”fa-la-la-la-las\” are performers representing varied cultural traditions, including Valley Beth Shalom Congregational Choir, which will sing gospel-influenced Chanukah songs with members of the L.A. Jewish Symphony.
A three-foot dancing dreidel and a visiting Holocaust survivor recall the ageless tales from a fresh perspective, when PBS station KCET airs \”Chanukah Stories\” on Dec. 24 and 25.
For me, the most telling moment in Steven Spielberg\’s \”Munich\” was the final scene, when the young, distraught Mossad team leader, Avner, takes a walk along the East River with his Israeli case officer, Ephraim, the man who supervised his mission.
\”Match Point\” marks a notable departure for Woody Allen, and not just because its story is set and was shot in England. Reminiscent in theme of \”Crimes and Misdemeanors,\” though without the humor, there\’s a new tone to this film. Enough so that anybody entering the theater not knowing who made this picture would be hard pressed to guess it was Allen.
In Myra Goldberg\’s short story, \”Who Can Retell,\” reprinted in the National Public Radio anthology, \”Hanukkah Lights, Stories of the Season\” (Melcher Media, 2005), a young girl is concerned that her school\’s holiday glee club is singling out all the Jewish students to sing Chanukah songs.
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