7 Days In Arts
Jewish Journal
August 12, 2004
Chug on down to the Getty today or tomorrow, as they present Sharon Katz and the Peace Train as part of their Garden Concerts for Kids series.
Category
writers
‘L-Words’ in a J World
David Finnigan
March 25, 2004
Joan Nestle is one of many Jewish lesbian writers with work catalogued at ONE, an archive similar to New York\’s Lesbian Herstory Archive, which Nestle co-founded in 1973.
Kids Page
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2003
You know that harmless-looking body part inside your mouth? The tongue? It sure looks nice enough, but it gets a lot of Israelites into trouble in this week\’s parsha.
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Sandee Brawarsky
March 6, 2003
\”Welcome to Heavenly Heights\” by Risa Miller (St. Martin\’s Press, $23.95).
Many writers have imagined the Jewish immigrant experience, setting their novels and short stories on the Lower East Side and places like that, where newcomers can forge their way to become Americans. Risa Miller\’s debut novel, \”Welcome to Heavenly Heights,\” is a different version of that story, with American Jews making new homes in Israel, reversing the exile. This transition can be more pressure cooker than melting pot, mixing idealism, religion, bureaucracy, family complexities, shifting expectations, love and, never far away, violence.
Funny ‘Guys’
Naomi Pfefferman
August 29, 2002
\nIn between schmoozing with kids for his acclaimed Fairfax High documentary \”Senior Year\” in 1998, filmmaker David Zeiger hung out with the funny old guys who did lunch with his dad on Tuesdays at the Mulholland Tennis Club.
A Trivial Pursuit
Teresa Strasser
February 7, 2002
You don\’t plan to become a trivia writer, it just happens. The next thing you know, you\’re a one-woman trivia carnival, packing up your trunk of battered almanacs and dictionaries and moving on to the next show.
7 Days In Arts
Solange Borna
August 9, 2001
Middle-aged, mild-mannered Barney Cashman craves excitement in the form of an extramarital affair. Neil Simon\’s \”Last of the Red Hot Lovers\” follows this bumbling protagonist as he attempts to seduce three women, including his wife\’s best friend, in his mother\’s apartment.
Deaths in the Family
Rob Eshman
August 9, 2001
\nWhenever one of our writers or contributors — or I myself — use the term \”Jewish community,\” I think of Lew Wasserman. An interviewer once asked the former MCA chairman and power broker about the Jewish community here. Wasserman shot back: \”I don\’t know of a Jewish community. It is nonexistent.\”
‘Strange Fruit’ and Stalinism
David Evanier
August 24, 2000
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
David Margolick, writer of books and articles on legal issues for The New York Times and Vanity Fair, has hit a raw nerve with his haunting book, \”Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights\” (Running Press). The book is an account of the scalding impact of one song – a song about a lynching – on scores of Ameri-can activists, writers, musicians, artists and intellectuals.
Of One Mind
Naomi Pfefferman
July 6, 2000
\”Blood Simple\” put the brothers on the map (Ethan quit his job as a statistical typist at Macy\’s), and the Coens went on to write, produce and direct a series of off-center, ironic, unsettling fables peopled with vividly drawn cartoon characters.
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