Shortly after releasing its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, which found an increase in reported hate crimes in California — up from 226 to 275 — the Anti-Defamation League held a meeting at its Los Angeles headquarters to advise local Jewish leaders on security threats facing the community in advance of the High Holy Days.
Following last year’s cancellation of the original New York version of the series after a venerable 20-year run — a record matched in drama only by the classic Western “Gunsmoke” — a new spawn will appear this fall: “Law & Order: Los Angeles.”
On June 21, during the Freedom Summer of 1964, two young Jews from New York and an African American from Mississippi were murdered while on a mission to register black voters in the South.
Matt Sax, the baby-faced composer-performer whose new show, “Venice,” was dubbed “the year’s best musical” by Time magazine, has a penchant for creating works in which life imitates art.
Just weeks before she graduated from Yale University in May 1959, Eva Hesse — a child survivor of the Holocaust who would become renowned for her sculptural assemblages — railed against artists of the day: “The hell with them all,” she wrote in her journal. “Paint yourself out, through and through, it will come by you alone. You must come to terms with your own work, not with any other being.”
David Scott Milton, 50-some years old, Jewish, is alone in a locked room with a young Nazi. They’re in the library of the Maximum Security Yard of the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi. It’s night, and the prison is in lock-down. David and the Nazi had a standoff a few days earlier — the Nazi doesn’t like Jews and David doesn’t like people who push Jews around — but that time, they were surrounded by prisoners and guards, and so the Nazi had backed down. When the lock-down began, he knew David would be sent alone to the library. Somehow, he evaded the guards, got there before David, and waited. He knows it’ll be some time before anyone realizes he’s missing, and some more time before he’s f
As experts rush to predict the outcome of the upcoming round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, all the familiar issues are resurfacing for discussion. Borders, right-of-return, Jerusalem, settlements. The world waits, and hopes, that this time the outcome will be different.
We can get very jaded about these Middle East diplomatic endeavors now under way in Washington, D.C., but we shouldn’t. If you care about Israel, you have to care about peace. For Israel to maintain its identity as a Jewish state it must find a way to allow for Palestinian self-determination. For Israel to thrive economically, diplomatically and culturally, it must reach an accord with its neighbors. That’s not peace-nikky platitudes, that’s the finding of every serious study of Israel’s long-term prospects.
Burlesque dancer and actress Dita Von Teese in a lawsuit accused her former landlord of an anti-Semitic tirade.
