IFF: Tinseltown opens arms and wallets to Israel counterparts
Robert David Jaffee
February 23, 2007
The upcoming Israel Film Festival represents the culmination of the consulate\’s developing ties with Hollywood.
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Come dive with me — Israeli skydivers training in SoCal
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2006
Sharon Har-noy and Adi Freid make up the only all-female Israeli skydive team in the advanced category, which includes just six teams.
Un-bee-lievable Spellings
Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
June 8, 2006
Of the viewers who watched ABC\’s broadcast of the 79th National Spelling Bee on June 1, how many would have spelled the word meaning \”kosher approval\” the way the judges did?
Songs of the South
Keren Engelberg
March 16, 2006
It appears Fox TV\’s \”American Idol\” has a Jewish contestant heading to the finals. Twenty-seven-year-old Elliott Yamin from Virginia, auditioned for the pop star search and singing competition in Boston, and has gone on to make it into the top 24, and then, on March 9, into the top 12.
Defy Gravity
Rob Eshman
July 21, 2005
Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld and I shook hands 20 minutes before we were to jump out of an airplane together at 12,500 feet. It would be my first solo jump. Dan has made some 23,000 — he\’s stopped counting except by the thousands.
Nachas From Noggins
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
June 16, 2005
El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills has once again given Los Angeles something to kvell about. The school claimed top honors at this year\’s national Academic Decathlon, the annual contest of intellectual prowess.
Three of the nine team members generated special pride for the Jewish community: Lindsey Cohen and Linsday Gibbs are both affiliated with Shomrei Torah, while Kevin Rosenberg attends Temple Aliyah.
\”I got enormous support from my parents, from my temple [Shomrei Torah] and from my friends,\” Gibbs said. \”After we won state, the rabbi sent me a letter and the cantor called me…. They didn\’t know what I got on each test or how I did medal-wise, and yet, they were all so supportive and welcoming and congratulatory when I got back.\”
Yeladim
Abby Gilad
May 5, 2005
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, fell this year on Thursday, May 5. Did your school honor the day? Quartz Hill High School, in the Antelope Valley, honors the Holocaust every year by putting on a competition for the best creative work.
Prices Too Low to Be Kosher
Stanley David
April 21, 2005
It happens every year, said Daryl Schwarz — who opened this 100 percent-kosher market in 1989 — only lately it\’s been getting worse. Large supermarket and discount chains are able to undersell kosher specialty markets on the very products that, traditionally, have been the Jewish stores\’ lifeblood.
The ‘Boys’ at the Front
Tom Tugend
December 30, 2004
Angress was one of \”The Ritchie Boys,\” a special Army unit made up mainly of young Jewish refugees from Germany, whose World War II exploits have been recorded for the first time in a documentary by German filmmaker Christian Bauer.\n\nThe German-Canadian co-production is one of 12 documentaries still in competition for Academy Award honors.
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