There is, of course, the thriving Skirball Cultural Center in theSepulveda Pass. And the American Jewish Committee\’s SkirballInstitute on American Values. And the Skirball ArchaeologicalBuilding and Skirball Museum on the Hebrew Union College campus inJerusalem. And the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at NewYork University.\n\nThere is also the Skirball Film Archive Fund at UCLA.
\”We\’re winding up our operations and terminating our relationship with the U.S. government,\” said Joseph DeSutter, executive director of the Washington-based organization. \”For all intents and purposes, we\’re out of business.\”
Dr. Barry Munitz, who started life in a \”lower-middle-class\” environment in Brooklyn, has been named president and chief executive officer of the $4.2 billion J. Paul Getty Trust.
About a decade ago, I was interviewing Professor Richard Hovannisian, the eminent UCLA authority on modern Armenian history.\n\nHe lamented the state of the Armenian Diaspora in Los Angeles, with its infighting and confrontations between church leaders, and its American-born generations forgetting the mother tongue and marrying out at an alarming rate.\n
Rabbi David J. Wolpe, along with his wife and 6-month-old daughter, arrived in Los Angeles from New York on June 30.
Many modern forms of anti-Semitism, not least the Dreyfus Affair, can be seen as a reaction to the emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe following the French Revolution, according to Dr. Michael Berenbaum.
The Jewish newspaper scene in Los Angeles was recently enlivened by the rise and fall of the short-lived \”Jewish Voice,\” and it is being invigorated again by the significant changes taking place in the local Hebrew-language press.
As the decades pass, why does the Holocaust retain, and even expand, its grip on the consciousness of the world and of its scholars, writers and filmmakers?
Few, other than historians of the period, will recognize July 12 as a date of any significance in the annals of European anti-Semitism.
The Holocaust has been the professional focus of Dr. Michael Berenbaum\’s life for 30 of his 51 years — as student, teacher, scholar, author, journalist and administrator.
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