March Connects Students to Shoah
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
November 4, 2004
With 15 years of Jewish day school education under his belt, Marc Marrero had a plan for college.
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Not Another Teen Movie
Keren Engelberg
May 27, 2004
\’Saved\’ was not an easy sell for co-writers Michael Urban and Brian Dannelly (who also directed the film). There was concern over the potential controversy of a religiously flip teen comedy, especially with all of the \”Passion\” fervor.
Israel Philharmonic Strikes Teen Chord
Carin Davis
December 18, 2003
Wearing Ug boots and draped wool scarves, a chatty clique of Milken Community High School girls slumped into their seats in a packed auditorium. About 600 had assembled to hear the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra\’s (IPO) KeyNote Brass Ensemble perform with the school\’s Chamber Ensemble and Concert Choir.
A World of Makeup, Midriffs and Mirrors
Naomi Pfefferman
September 4, 2003
\”Girl Culture\” began while Lauren Greenfield was perusing pictures she had shot in Las Vegas for a German magazine. She kept returning to an image of a 30ish showgirl primping at her dressing table at the Stardust Hotel. Taped to her mirror were magazine cutouts of models and a note, \”I approve of myself\”; the surrounding area was cluttered with the beauty tools Greenfield first encountered at sleepaway camp. The photographer suddenly realized she had something in common with the showgirl.
Skinhead Attack in Beverlywood
Michael Aushenker
April 11, 2002
Four Caucasian men, appearing to be neo-Nazi skinheads, attacked three Jewish high school boys last Shabbat shortly after midnight in Beverlywood.\n\nThe three observant students, in their midteens and wearing kippot, were walking through the quiet neighborhood on April 6, when a dark-colored car containing four men pulled up, according to a police report. Two of the men emerged from the car shouting slurs such as \”Heil Hitler\” and attacked the Jewish teens.\n\nOne of the Jewish boys escaped, while the other two, both 17, were beaten, despite their efforts to fend off their assailants, according to one of the victims. The Jewish boys were punched and kicked. One of the boys was held down, and the assailants shouted slurs, calling the boy \”a dirty kike.\” No weapons were involved in the incident. At the parents\’ request, the names of the Jewish teens have been withheld.\n\n
Not Another Token Jew
Naomi Pfefferman
December 20, 2001
Michael Bender and Mia Kirschner admit there\’s no Jewish archetype in Joel Gallen\’s \”Not Another Teen Movie\” — a \”nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years\’ worth of youth pictures,\” according to The New York Times. \”The \’Jewish kid\’ isn\’t really a character that\’s consistently come up in teen movies,\” says Bender, one of the writers and co-producers of the comedy which does to teen movies what \”Scary Movie\” did to the horror genre. Maybe that\’s why the football team in the film\’s fictional John Hughes High is called the Wasps, suggests Kirschner, who plays the school\’s \”Cruelest Girl\” (a spoof of the film, \”Cruel Intentions\”).
Postcards from Israel
Ruth Stroud
October 16, 1997
In every picture, Melissa Kahn is smiling — whether covered with mud at the Dead Sea, riding a donkey up Mount Canaan or hiking from the Mediterranean to Lake Kineret. Kahn, 16, a junior at Harvard-Westlake School, mused recently about the eight weeks shes pent in Israel last summer on the Bureau of Jewish Education\’s Los Angeles Ulpan program.
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