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Up Close and Comical

Naomi Pfefferman December 5, 2002

\’I\’m a ham,\” said legendary actor-writer-director Carl Reiner.\n\n\”When you\’re a showoff, you\’ve gotta get on that platform.\”\n\nWhich is why 80-year-old Reiner is eager to regale the audience with tales of his life in a speaking engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Dec. 9. He\’ll cover everything from working on Sid Caesar\’s TV shows to playing straight man to Mel Brooks\’ 2,000-Year-Old Man to writing semi-autobiographical novels such as \”Enter Laughing.\”

To Live Again

Andrea Adelson August 1, 2002

Yom Kippur is much more than saying, I\’m sorry, said Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, the well-known theologian, author and speaker who will be in Orange County on Aug. 12 to talk about preparing spiritually for the High Holidays.

Barak Better Than Before

Amy Klein April 25, 2002

The struggle for peace in Israel may take years or even generations, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told a crowd of over 6,200 people at the Universal Amphitheater on April 21. Barak was the final speaker in the University of Judaism\’s (UJ) department of continuing education lecture series, which featured Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and James Carville. The sold-out series, organized by the dean of UJ\’s continuing education department, Gady Levy, has brought much money and prestige to the university, and will be continued next year, Levy said.

Do-it-Yourselfers

Rob Eshman November 8, 2001

At my college newspaper, new writers all received the same encouraging spiel. \”We want you to start writing for us immediately,\” the editor would say. \”We\’re not like the Harvard Crimson, where you have to scrub floors all semester before anyone even talks to you.\”

Sign of Hope

Jewish Journal Staff February 22, 2001

The sign to the left, posted by Israeli Jewish and Arab students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology around the elite Rehovot campus, reads: \”We, the Arab and Jewish students of the Technion, who daily sit together in the same classrooms in cooperation and friendship, express our pain over the recent outbreaks of violence in our country. It is up to us to continue living here in mutual dignity, peace and security. We call on every Technion student to speak out against violence, and on every citizen to work on behalf of good neighborly relations.\”

Dance With Them That Brung You

Jewish Journal November 5, 1998

Abe Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says that he\’s opening up a new front in his organization\’s 85-year campaign to protect Jews from defamation. This new fight is a little different from battles past, though, because its target is other Jews.\nFoxman wants Jews to watch their language when they talk about fellow Jews. Otherwise somebody could get hurt. Another Israeli prime minister, for example.

Becoming a Best Seller

Naomi Pfefferman November 5, 1998

While cities such as Detroit and St. Louis were holding major Jewish book festivals year after year, drawing celebrity authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, observers here asked, Why isn\’t there a Jewish book festival in Los Angeles?

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