Aviva Slesin\’s affecting but unsentimental documentary focuses on the psychological aftermath of hiding, such as the sense of abandonment child survivors carried into adulthood and the difficulty rebonding with parents.
Try this experiment: Put your hands in your pockets and try to explain to someone — verbally — how to tie shoes. It\’s an exercise in frustration, because there are certain things you can learn by description, and there are others that can only be learned in the doing — learned not by words and concepts, but by involving fingers, hands and heart.
To what extent do we (and would we) internalize the essence of the Torah?
With the retirement this year of several prominent senior rabbis, youthful faces have come to occupy the majority of Westside pulpits and others throughout the city, a confluence of vitality that has the potential to herald the beginning of a new era for the wider Los Angeles Jewish community.
After Keren Margalit\’s boyfriend died in an army-related accident a decade ago, she envisioned the drama that would become "All I\’ve Got," the opening-night film of the 2003 Israel Film Festival.
It\’s a sweaty summer day in the city, and the sun — worthy of a heat-advisory at 9:30 a.m. — mercilessly scorches the sidewalks as I dodge bus-exhaust fumes, doughnut carts and the tourist masses while making my way to my office cubicle.
Jeff Gabriel knows that when he arrives at the University of Colorado in Boulder this September, connecting to his Jewish roots won\’t be a priority.
Too much driving and dreaming makes me practically a native here, I suppose. When I complained to my friend Stuart back East, he said: \”Slow down. Pull over. Take a class.\”
