Each of the artists\’ songs have flooded the radio waves for nearly five decades, a soundtrack, of sorts, to Israel\’s many wars, casualties, celebrations, assassinations, and shifting moods — from hopeful to cynical and hopeful again.
Long time L.A. drycleaner Barry Gershenson was named one of four national spokespersons for the FabriCare Foundation. Gershenson, a third-generation dry cleaning veteran has more than 40 years experience as owner of Sterling Fine Cleaning in Los Angeles. As a spokesperson for the FabriCare Foundation, Gershenson\’s role will be to educate consumers on the definition of a \”professional\” drycleaner, as well as the overall benefits of dry cleaning.
Israel Prize laureate Ehud Manor passed away in April but his beloved songs live on in the hearts of Israelis.
Business at Eitan Salman\’s music store has fallen 80 percent over the last decade, but it\’s not altogether a bad thing: Mizrahi music has grown so popular in Israel that it no longer is the exclusive domain of mom-and-pop shops like Salman\’s but is sold even at Israel\’s Tower Records outlets.
If it seems unlikely that a nice Jewish girl would become a flamenco dancer, consider her early role models. Or Nili Azulay\’s Syrian-born grandmother, Nona, defied her parents to wed the man she loved, then refused to remarry after he died several years later. Azulay\’s mother, Chaya, became one of Israel\’s first female barristers; her father died when she was a small child. \”The sadness of not having a father was tempered by growing up with these strong, independent women,\” she said.
Events remembering Israel\’s fallen soldiers, on May 6, and celebrating the nation\’s founding, officially May 7, include two local benefits to address gaping needs of Israelis.
It\’s Thursday night at Toras Hashem, an outreach yeshiva in North Hollywood and some 40 people are here to hear Rabbi Zvi Block\’s weekly Torah
portion sermon.
If RockFour comes bearing an agenda, it is decidedly more in tune with the Beach Boys\’ Brian Wilson than with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Few performers have the talent and magnetism to carry a one-person show by singing old Broadway show tunes, sentimental ballads and Yiddish classics. But Mandy Patinkin, the Tony and Emmy Award-winning showman, consistently entertains, even electrifies, the most urbane audiences singing his eclectic mix of popular songs, usually sharing the stage only with his piano player and a flowering pot or two.
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