There are some new faces at UCLA. Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan were recently hired to be the Torah educator couple for the Orthodox Union\’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC).
Laemmle Theaters: Release of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, "Prisoner of Paradise," about German Jewish actor Kurt Gerron, sent to a concentration camp and forced to write and direct Nazi propaganda. Laemmle Music Hall, Beverly Hills.
Will lighting six candles and reciting "Kaddish" rouse the emotions and intellect of generations of Jews who never met a Holocaust survivor?
Milken Community High School senior Nona Farahnik was named Milken Idol for her stirring pro-Israel speech in the school\’s March 10 public speaking finals, with other competitors talking about bullies, cheating, the homeless and Special Olympics in the \”American Idol\”-inspired contest.
Michael Berenbaum, a first-rate scholar and writer, who was founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has produced, in effect, a traveling museum, or in barely more than two score pages, a traveling museum exhibit.
When the Nazis forced artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis into Terezin, she smuggled in art supplies and taught the concentration camp\’s children to express themselves through art.
On Nov. 6, the Zimmer Children\’s Museum took on Hollywood when the organization honored Barbara Fisher, executive vice president of entertainment at Lifetime Entertainment Services, and actress Cynthia Sikes Yorkin (best known for her roles in \”St. Elsewhere\” and \”L.A. Law\”) at the Zimmer\’s third annual Discovery Award Dinner.
Its high profile — spurred by an aggressive and media-savvy leadership — makes the Simon Wiesenthal Center an inviting target.
On Sat., May 31, President Bush visited Auschwitz, and spoke about the horrors of that place where some 1.5-million Jews were gassed to death by the Nazis.
When Dr. Edward Phillips set out to create the first English-language exhibit on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, opening Sunday at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, information proved elusive.
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