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Elliot Steingart

Between Trains

Playing Against Type

Blog to Glory

Friends with Baby Boomers

Sports and Attractions

Coed Carpool

Judy, The Foodie

My Dad’s an Asian Male Model

Movies by Myself

Waiting on Fruit & Love in Los Feliz

Laughing at Synagogue

Business and Pleasure in Chicago

Jewish Girls and Monster Jam

Shame on Dickel’s

Wacking Balls

Birthday Behavior

Honest with Girls

Irritable Week Syndrome

Supporting the Arts

Uncle Elliot

A Steingart Family Christmas Miracle?

Steingart Vs Himself

Rejection Collection

Fathers, Sons and Futons

House Hunters: Los Angeles

Having a Crush on My Neigbhor

Moving on From Melrose

Saying Goodbye to my Grandma Leona

Date Watchers

Being There

GifelteBitch

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May 18-24, 2012

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Filmmaker writes from experience for post-Holocaust drama ‘Mighty Fine’

Filmmaker Debbie Goodstein has taken to heart the adage, “Write what you know.” Her 1989 Holocaust documentary, “Voices From the Attic,” recounts her mother’s years of hiding in a garret where snow descended through slats in the roof, a baby died and food was scarce.

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Days after the election that brings Hitler to power, a Jewish couple — an acclaimed physicist and his unfaithful wife — contemplate whether to seek an unknown future outside of Germany or stay put in Berlin. Written by playwright Iddo Netanyahu, brother of Israel’s prime

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New Old Friends

I've recently become close with Abe and Frank, two older guys in my neighborhood. At 90 and 88 respectively, they’re not the typical age of my other friends. At first I wasn’t sure if it was friendship. Maybe they were just humoring me or passing the time. Why would old people want to be friends with me, a 35-year-old?