I used to think that between the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., and the birth of Israel in 1948, there was no such thing as an
\nexclusively Jewish city. Sure, there were plenty of Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods scattered throughout the globe, but a city with only Jews in it? I never imagined it.
Devin never thought he would get to bring his love for skateboarding into his rite of passage: \”I thought it would be like my sister, and I\’d work at a shelter, but this was a lot more fun.\”
Don\’t have time to shlep to a museum? Too tired to remember if the free museum day is the first or second Tuesday of the month?
When Stanley Kubrick died in March 1999 during the post-production of his final film, \”Eyes Wide Shut,\” he left behind several pet projects he had been working on for decades. These included a science-fiction riff on \”Pinocchio\” (later finished by Steven Spielberg as \”A.I.\”), a historical biopic of the life of Napoleon and a Holocaust project with the working title \”Aryan Papers.\”
When George Jacobs heard about the children\’s Holocaust project in Whitwell, Tenn., he immediately thought of Malka.
Saadin, 42, is nearing completion on a 16-unit condominium project on Cashio Street that targets traditional Jews. The kosher condos, believed to be the largest and among the first such developments in the Southland, will each feature two dishwashers, two separate counters and two sinks to allow religious Jews to cook and clean dairy and meat products separately. The units will also have programmable timers to automatically turn lights off and on during Shabbat and a netila station — a sink for ritual handwashing.
Getting funding for a project takes massive time, energy and, often, money. Many Jewish communities send representatives to Washington to make the pitch directly to their lawmakers, as well as members of congressional appropriations committees. Some hire Washington lobbyists to make the necessary introductions for them.
That is how rehearsal time goes for the \”Center of the Star, A Jewish Tour of Los Angeles,\” a new play by Yehuda Hyman that is the latest project of the Cornerstone Theater Company (CTC) and Greenway Arts Alliance.
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.
niel Libeskind is coming back to New York to help heal the wounds created on Sept. 11. He won\’t be working with words or medicine but with stone, cement, glass and steel.
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