For years, people have asked Erez Safar what it would take to bring his popular New York-based Sephardic Music Festival to Los Angeles.
Sibling relationships have been fraught and competitive since the dawn of time.
“Can you get me a sandwich?” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said aloud to no one in particular in the film crew as he emerged from the back of an SUV, stepping into a bright, egg-yolk-hued sunset over Jaffa, Israel.
“So this is where they did it,” I think to myself. I’m in Berlin, headed to a hotel, and all I can think about is the Holocaust. A truck pulls in front of me. On the back is written “Schnell!” The exclamation point cues me in. It’s an ad. It wants me to hurry up and buy something. It is not ordering me to march or to dig.\n
Swiping his finger to the left, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s now-former chief rabbi, and arguably the world’s most prominent religious Jewish leader, was looking for a text he felt might show how Orthodox Jews can spread a Jewish message to the Western world.
Jewish Journal: What are you able to do differently now that you are no longer Chief Rabbi?
Israel’s tech sector just might be resting on its laurels.
“I want to give back, not just sit back,” Samuel “Shimmy” Kandel said. The 19-year-old Angeleno was explaining in a phone interview why he decided to interrupt his studies at Santa Monica College to serve as an American volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
At 5 a.m. on Nov. 9, 1938, Manfred (Fred) Wolf was awakened by loud banging on the front door of their home in Merl an der Mosel, Germany.
“Alot of the way I work is by creating so much desire to see something that you actually project that into the space,” Jonas N.T. Becker said on a recent morning at the Shulamit Gallery in Venice.
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