KTLA Studios was my destination and I had wanted to be there by 7:00. Before the NBA superstar got there. I was pretty sure he was going to be late, but I had told the KTLA crew to let me know when Ron Artest showed up. “He’s already here,” they told me. The guy actually had come early.
A Connecticut auction company is auctioning a rare handwritten letter from Josef Mengele in June.
Artist Joanie Rosenthal will exhibit her latest piece at an unexpected place: eBay.
On the third night of Chanukah my true love gave to me, an Olympic swim cap signed by Lenny Krayzelburg, a game of Horse with the Houston Rocket\’s Bostjan Nachbar and a chance to be on the set of ESPN\’s Cold Pizza.
Thanks to the Center for Sport and Jewish Life\’s online Chanukah auction (www.CSJL.org), gift giving just got more interesting.
Karen Sturm purchased most of the artwork in her home at art auctions, where sale prices generally are lower than for work offered in retail galleries.
On the eve of Simchat Torah, many synagogues auction the three major honors of the day, with proceeds benefiting the synagogue or other Jewish institutions. Two honors, Hatan Torah (for the one called to the final reading in Deuteronomy) and Hatan Bereshit (for the one called to the first reading in Genesis), usually receive the highest bids. The third, Kol Hanearim — supervising the blessing of all minor children as a tallit is held over their heads, while the honoree receives the next-to-last aliyah in Vezot Haberakha — can be a close second.
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