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February 2, 2011

Memoirs of a Hungarian resister

Jonathan Kirsch February 2, 2011

Every self-published author thinks he or she has something important to say. It’s rare that the reader agrees, I’m afraid, and rarer still when history or literature is enriched by the author’s effort. I am happy to report that none of these cautions apply to “Rebel With a Cause: The Amazing True Stories of an Urban Partisan in WWII” by Andrew E. Stevens in collaboration with Meir Doron. (See below for ordering information.)

Piecing together daily life in Terezin

Jewish Journal February 2, 2011

Erich Lichtblau-Leskly is relatively unknown, but the power of his art — created while he was an inmate of the concentration camp known as the Theresienstadt ghetto — is evident in the exhibition “The Art Of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly” at the newly opened Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park. The paintings, on display through May 1, are rendered in a cartoon style, and many are sarcastic commentary on the desperate conditions under which the Jewish prisoners existed, contradicting Nazi propaganda that promoted Theresienstadt as a model facility where Jews supposedly were well treated. Lichtblau-Leskly’s work is singular when compared to most Holocaust-related art, according to E. Randol Schoenberg, president of the museum’s board of directo

Valley arts fans get sparkling new venue, shorter shlep

Jewish Journal February 2, 2011

It wasn’t the fact that stars like Andy Garcia and Calista Flockhart were walking the red carpet that had people buzzing on Jan. 29. It was where they did it — not Hollywood and not downtown. It was Northridge. As a pink sky turned purple, more than 1,400 people gathered at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) to celebrate the long-awaited opening of its Valley Performing Arts Center (VPAC).

Luskin family donates $100 million to UCLA

Ryan Torok February 2, 2011

Meyer Luskin and his wife, Renee, are donating $100 million to UCLA, the university’s second largest gift in its history, Chancellor Gene Block announced Jan. 26.

Hatzolah volunteer confronted

Jonah Lowenfeld February 2, 2011

A Beverly Hills Police officer pointed his gun at a Jewish emergency medical technician who was responding to a car crash on Olympic Boulevard on Jan. 20. The EMT, a volunteer with the Hatzolah of Los Angeles Jewish emergency rescue team, was rushing to the scene of a two-car collision in his own car, which bore flashing, roof-mounted red-and-white lights and was blaring a siren.

Roundtable discusses basis for health, Judaism research

Jewish Journal February 2, 2011

Few would deny a connection between spirituality, Judaism and health, but how does it function and how would one prove it? The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) gathered about 30 scholars, rabbis and doctors to plumb these questions as part of its 2011 Roundtable on Judaism and Health Research on Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley.

Yaroslavsky goes out for the count [VIDEO]

Jonah Lowenfeld February 2, 2011

A few minutes into the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count on the night of Jan. 27, Zev Yaroslavsky turned to the driver of the minivan carrying the Los Angeles County supervisor and two of his deputies and asked where the young man was originally from. Tomasz Babiszkiewicz, an outreach case manager with People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), told Yaroslavsky in lightly accented English that he had come to the United States from Poland seven years earlier to study at University of Southern California.

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