Like many baby-boomers today, I sometimes feel older than Keith Richards up a palm tree. So when Irv and Eddie, my better elders, invite me to go out with them, I tag along, if only to combat creepy self-pity.
Bible Storyland must have a guardian angel. Dissolution by the clergy, dormancy for 45 years and a fatal fire were not powerful enough to erase the plans for this Bible-based theme park from history.
Filmmakers are currently wrestling with four different projects to document or dramatize the story of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter beheaded by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in early 2002, leaving behind a pregnant wife.
Hila Plitmann is building a career based largely on new music by composers like David Del Tredici, John Corigliano, Roger Reynolds and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the latter the longtime music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and something of a Plitmann champion.
Was Richard Wagner, Hitler\’s favorite composer, a classical anti-Semite and proto-Nazi or has conventional assumption given him a bad rap?
In \”Pound of Flesh,\” at the Odyssey Theater, Ezra Pound spars with Pvt. Cooper, a young soldier who keeps him company while he awaits trial in Italy for his crimes of treachery against the United States in World War II. If this private is not Pound\’s intellectual match, he more than matches the poet on moral grounds.
By his size and handsome impression, our son, Max, appears to be like any other boy his age, however when you meet him in his wheelchair, you quickly learn that he is severely disabled, both cognitively and physically. He\’s unable to talk, use a device to communicate, propel himself or use his hands. You realize that he\’s dependent on others in every aspect of his life. Yet, that didn\’t stop our family and friends from all over California, our community and Max himself from celebrating his becoming a bar mitzvah.
Dating can be scary. Dating in a foreign country can be petrifying.
Shavuot commemorates the Jewish people\’s grandest moment of revelation — on a mountain, but definitely not in solitude. Absolutely personal, but not in the least private.
At 81, frail of body but sharp-tongued and wise, Rabbi Schulweis has made it his mission to preach the gospel of conversion to the Jews. That is we, as individuals and as a people, must seek and embrace converts. Doing so will not only improve Jewish life but improve our own lives as Jews.
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