The media has been busy for months with \”One People, Two Worlds\” (Schocken Books, 2002), the book I co-authored with Ammie
Hirsch, and the promotional tour from which I withdrew after two appearances in deference to the Council of Torah Sages.
Is Jewish the new gay? That\’s how it\’s looking this season on NBC\’s \”Will and Grace.\”
I\’m an experienced multidater, so I\’m usually pretty good at juggling men.
One day during his junior year abroad in Vienna in 1978, Jon Marans told a professor of his intention to visit the concentration camp Dachau. Her response stunned him. \”She said, \’Why do you want to go there for? It\’s just a bunch of dead Jews,\’\” recalled the Pulitzer-nominated playwright, whose \”Jumping for Joy\” opens Sept. 7 at Laguna Playhouse.
In the 1948 film "Gentleman\’s Agreement," Phil Green, changing his last name to Greenberg, passes as a Jew in order to write a searing exposé of anti-Semitism.
Turns out the Frisco Kid wasn\’t the only Jewish cowboy. Kicking off the exhibition >\”Jewish Life in the American West: Generation to Generation\” at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage is a music concert titled \”Jews in the West.\”
It\’s time to make room for a newer generation of American Jewish writers, many of whom are young women who have not even hit 30.
Yehuda Amichai, a world-renowned poet and one of Israel\’s most famous writers, has died of cancer at the age of 76.
Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer to the stars, picks up the phone. \”Jew speaking,\” he says.
Emmy Award-winning Vilanch, 51, is one of the drollest Jews in Hollywood.
Many American filmgoers still aren\’t familiar with Francis Veber. Yet they should be — they\’ve been watching his work for two decades. Sort of.
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