Jeffrey Kahane, who steps down as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) this season, started thinking about a series of concerts and events touching on themes of tolerance, compassion, cooperation and creativity when his tenure, the longest in the orchestra’s history, began 20 years ago.
During winter semester break, 40 select college students from the United States are in Israel on TAVtech, a nonprofit coding and entrepreneurship fellowship connecting them to Israel’s startup scene while teaching them impactful skills and exposing them to cutting-edge technology.
The new year is an ideal time to get rid of clutter and start fresh. But for a lot of us, parting ways with our “stuff” can be difficult.
In the Fairfax area recently, married chefs Matthew Sieger and Rikki Garcia-Sieger were whipping up scratch-made glatt kosher Mexican vittles on their new food truck, Holy Frijoles!
Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.
The peripatetic philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was en route from Iraq to his home in Paris when the Journal caught up with him by phone during a stopover in Morocco and spoke about a wide range of topics, from the election of Donald Trump to the successes of Zionism.
I remember a preface I wrote thirty years ago … for a book of photographs devoted to the men in black of Mea Shearim.
In a dusty, vacant lot across from Los Angeles City Hall last June, as a row of city officials announced the selection of the team to develop a new park there at the corner of West First Street and North Broadway, City Councilman Jose Huizar called Deborah Weintraub to the podium.
The first time Shirley and Art Sotloff played for me the recording in which their son, my childhood friend Steven, pleaded with them to try to save him from execution by ISIS, his mother uttered words I will never forget.
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