Give me a happy ending
Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
January 4, 2007
I\’m so happy that my parents are happy. Each of them are very much in love — just not with the other.
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January 4, 2007
Take a walk on the Weil side
David Suissa
January 4, 2007
It\’s sexy and titillating to read about people getting kicked out of synagogues, which was the subject of a cover story in this paper a few weeks ago.
Need for good schools should unite Jews and Latinos
Bill Boyarsky
January 4, 2007
In contrast to the 1960s, when the fabled and overblown black-Jewish alliance was obsessively chronicled and debated by Jewish academics, journalists, essayists and community leaders, the rise of the Latino population has not seemed to capture much Jewish interest, either pro or con. That is especially true now, when so many activist Jews are focused only on Israel.
Moral Diet
Rob Eshman
January 4, 2007
The holidays are over, and I\’m full.I spent a week with family in Manhattan, eating.And when I wasn\’t eating, I was reading a landmark book — about food.
Get on down to ‘Funkel Town; Middle Eastern humor; Accordians! Accordians! Accordians!
Keren Engelberg
January 4, 2007
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts takes you to \”funkel town.\” It\’s Art Garfunkel in concert this evening, singing American tunes from his days with Paul Simon, as well as solo pieces from days since.
Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem’s modern-day Herod, dies at 95
Dina Kraft
January 4, 2007
Teddy Kollek, the longtime Jerusalem mayor who died this week at the age of 95, is being remembered as the most prolific builder of the city since King Herod.
Whither the First Born?
Rabbi Joel Rembaum
January 4, 2007
One can learn a great deal about how not to parent by reading the stories of the dysfunctional matriarchal/patriarchal families that comprise a substantial proportion of the narrative in Genesis.
Who needs law school? Just marry a lawyer!
Jane Ulman
January 4, 2007
First, let me say that by the time I announced to my family that I was actually getting married, at the already questionable child-bearing age of 34, they would have been ecstatic had I said I was marrying a Martian.The fact that Larry was a lawyer, on the partner track at a reputable Los Angeles law firm, was a bonus. The fact that he was a Jewish lawyer, strongly identified as a Member of the Tribe and actively engaged in the community, was beyond their wildest hopes.
Will ’13’ Be Lucky?
Naomi Pfefferman
January 4, 2007
In Jason Robert Brown\’s new rock musical, \”13,\” the 13-year-old characters stand in a semicircle, staring bewilderedly at scraps of parchment.The teenagers in this show, which has its world premiere Jan. 7 at the Mark Taper Forum downtown, are non-Jewish students at a middle school in the fictional Appleton, Ind., and the \”mysterious\” documents are invitations to a bar mitzvah, courtesy of the Jewish new-kid-in-town, Evan Goldman.This funny-poignant piece is the brainchild of 36-year-old composer-lyricist Brown — who is often described as a successor to Stephen Sondheim — and among the smartest and most sophisticated talents in today\’s musical theater.
Ricky Ashley comes of age — on stage and off
Sarah Price Brown
January 4, 2007
Here is a question for the rabbis: Can a teenager acting out a bar mitzvah on stage actually get credit for becoming a man? What if he has rehearsed for months? And what if he reads a real Haftorah? Ricky Ashley, the 17-year-old who stars in the new musical \”13,\” never had a bar mitzvah. He was too busy acting and never found time to prepare. But now, Ashley is playing Evan Goldman, a 13-year-old who has his coming of age ceremony after moving to a new school in a new town, where the kids confuse \”bar mitzvah\” with \”Bon Jovi.\”
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