Following an intensive, three-year fund-raising campaign, augmented by government aid, BBI has moved from \”rubble to renewal\” and from \”dream to reality,\” according to the invitation to the Sept. 14 event.
A spokesman for the Jerusalem police confirmed that the fire was caused by arson, and that the connection Sorek spoke of was one of the possibilities being investigated. The spokesman said that he did not want to elaborate, \”because this is a very sensitive matter.\” He added that no suspects had yet been arrested.
Leni Riefenstahl\’s long career ranges from silent-screen actress to recent underwater photographer, but her name is invariably linked to her 1934 film, \”Triumph of the Will.\” Shot at a Nuremberg party rally, it is considered one of the world\’s most notorious propaganda documentaries, in which she used brilliant cinematic techniques to glorify Hitler and the Aryan ideal.
Veteran television writer/producer Saul Turteltaub had to wait 44 years for his first film credit, \”For Roseanna,\” starring Mercedes Reuhl and Jean Reno.\n\nSaul Turteltaub, a name-brand television comedy writer and producer for 44 years, remembers submitting his first movie screenplay.
In the midst of an international crisis over Who is a Jew, with Israeli police stopping Conservative and Reform men and women from praying together at the Western Wall and a small Orthodox group declaring that liberals are not practicing Judaism, it\’s good to know there is, apparently, still one thing that all Jews can agree upon: Who is not acting as a Jew.
It turns out that there are more Jews in the South Bay than many had imagined — about 45,000, according to a just-released population study by the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles.
About the time one is tempted to feel a wee bit sorry for the Swiss over the barrage of flak they\’re now getting, along comes a new probe of the country\’s conduct during World War II to set the blood boiling again.
You can write a decent Jewish cookbook by collecting the recipes of decent Jewish cooks, or you can write a truly fine Jewish cookbook by compiling the recipes of fine cooks who happen to be Jewish. Make sense? It will when you consider two of the newest entries to the Jewish cooking market.
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