The benefits of making mistakes
Jonathan Kirsch
March 23, 2011
\”Writers don\’t die of typhus,\” goes one of my favorite quotations from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. \”They die of typos.\”
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March 23, 2011
Calendar Picks and Clicks: March 24-April 1, 2011
Ryan Torok
March 23, 2011
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VIDAL SASSOON\nSpend an evening with the man who has been on the cutting edge of hairstyling since the 1960s. Sassoon discusses and signs “Vidal: The Autobiography,” his recently released memoir, which follows his youth in a London Jewish orphanage, his time spent fighting in the Israeli army and, of course, his wildly successful career. Fri. 7 p.m. Free. Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 659-3110. booksoup.com
One woman killed, over 30 injured in bomb explosion in Jerusalem [UPDATE]
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2011
One woman was killed and at least three dozen people injured when a bomb exploded in central Jerusalem.
Birthdays in Israel, then and now
Roberto Loiederman
March 23, 2011
Birthdays with a zero have a special purchase on the imagination. Whether one turns 40 or 70, that zero marks a turning point, the end of an old decade and the beginning of a new one, a chance to take stock: what in Hebrew is called cheshbon ha-nefesh — literally, an accounting of your soul. And if that birthday takes place in Israel, where you once lived for years — and where you might have stayed, had you chosen to — you have a formula for cascading, competing visions of what was and what might have been.
Silverado facility confronts elder abuse
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2011
Elmore Kittower was 80 when he died in November 2007 at Silverado Senior Living, an assisted-living facility in Calabasas. His death was initially attributed to natural causes; at the time, a sheriff’s deputy told Kittower’s wife of 49 years, Rita, that her husband had “just stopped breathing.”
My Single Peeps: Ameenah K.
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2011
I met Ameenah when I was in sixth or seventh grade at “Jew camp.” She stuck out like a sore thumb … because she’s so funny. Oh, and she’s black. And there weren’t many black Jews at Jew camp.
Refining Our Souls: Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
March 23, 2011
The aphorism “you are what you eat” first appeared in French and then in German in the 1800s, and was then brought into English in the 1920s by nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, the inventor of the “catabolic diet.” Hippie foodies later adopted the phrase in the 1960s.
Philip Glass’ ‘Akhnaten’ at Long Beach Opera
Rick Schultz
March 23, 2011
Who was Akhnaten? For composer Philip Glass, this mysterious Egyptian pharaoh, said to be Queen Nefertiti’s husband and the father of King Tutankhamen, was a rebel-hero. In the 14th century B.C.E., Akhnaten defied tradition by attempting to forge a monotheistic religion, and even tried to change Egyptian artistic culture by moving the capital city and building a new one, Amarna, now a ruin.
Milken Institute brainstorms funding for Israel heritage sites
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2011
Jerusalem — It’s one thing to unearth ancient artifacts, remnants of glorious past civilizations; it’s another thing to pay for their excavation, maintenance and conservation.
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