Classical Klezmer
Mike Levy
November 29, 2001
What do you do when your symphony season hinges on a theme of celebration, but your country is still reeling from terrorism?
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Rabbis and Ravioli
Dennis Gura
October 18, 2001
Years ago, UCLA visiting professor Luisa Del Giudice discovered she was more interested in the way ordinary people remembered their past than the way writers and academics recorded formal history.
In pursuit of that interest, she founded the Italian Oral History Institute (IOHI), a project dedicated to documenting the groups typically unacknowledged in Italian life and history. This year, the IOHI presents \”Italian Jews: Memory, Music, Celebration,\” a far-ranging survey of Italian Jewish life including music, food, cinema, history and language. The Jewish presence — and now absence — in the Italian landscape, in the small towns and large cities, inspires a new generation of both Italian and American scholars.
Holy Days in Hollywood
Michael Aushenker
September 13, 2001
\”My mind\’s going to be closed all day.\”\n\n * Mort Sahl, Comedian\n\n\”I think my girlfriend and I are going to be in town. My brother will come in from school. It\’s a great time of the year, and it\’s always nice to reflect on yourself and to spend it with family. We fast, we get cranky, but it\’s nothing a little pickled herring can\’t cure.\”\n\n * Fred Savage, Actor
Increased Sympathies
Gil Sedan
May 17, 2001
For the first time in the history of the state, Arabs in Israel stood up for a moment of silence — commemorating Al Nakba — Arabic for \”the catastrophe,\” which is what Palestinians call the 1948 creation of the State of Israel.
125 and Still Growing
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
April 19, 2001
This Sunday, HUC-JIR\’s Los Angeles school will celebrate the seminary\’s 125 years with a day of study, song, and partying.
‘B.C.’ Not P.C.?
Michael Aushenker
April 19, 2001
Are Johnny Hart\’s views on religion as prehistoric as his comic-strip characters?
Skirball at Five
Naomi Pfefferman
April 12, 2001
\nWhen the Skirball Cultural Center opened in April 1996, its founding president and CEO, Rabbi Uri D. Herscher, didn\’t buy the philosophy \”If you build it, they will come.\”
Charoset a recipe for sharing.
Elizabeth Sunshine
March 29, 2001
Each year the charoset recipe remained the same, but the stories were different. Finally, when I was old enough to hear them, my father told me how he and his brother tried to commemorate Passover in Ebensee, an Austrian concentration camp.
A Purim SOS
Judy Zeidler
March 8, 2001
Two weeks ago I got an actual SOS from a ship. Tova and Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz, en route to the Philippines on the Holland America cruise ship M.S. Rotterdam, were requesting a Persian Purim menu and recipes for the ship\’s executive chef.
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