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Cleveland kidnappings: We must be our brother’s keeper
The exterior of the house where three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately ten years ago were found alive on May 7 in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Pugliano/Getty Images
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Palestinians mark Nakba with West Bank protests
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, which they call the “catastrophe,” with marches and protests.
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State 194: A Documentary About Palestine
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Ventura Film Fest remembers Sally Davis, celebrity journalist
The Ventura Jewish Film Festival, opening March 9, will range across the Jewish world, from Ireland to Israel, and, in time, from the 19th century to the present.
Academy Awards — not the greatest night for the Tribe
Israeli movie wins top prize at Palm Springs film fest
Two-and-a-half Jews spearhead Oscar nominations
“The Flat” uncovers a relationship between a Nazi and a Jew
The Israeli documentary “The Flat” begins in a Tel Aviv apartment, where half a dozen people are clearing out 70 years of clutter left behind by their grandmother, who has died recently at 98.
Tel Aviv University, UC Irvine collaborate
In 2025, more than 8 billion people are projected to inhabit our globe, linked by advanced communication devices and techniques.
American history at Skirball: ‘We the People …’
As the citizens of the United States enter the home stretch of the quadrennial presidential elections, the Skirball Cultural Center is presenting four simultaneous exhibitions to show how the experiment in American democracy was born and how it is faring some 236 years later.
Late news: Zionists corrupted Napoleon
I remember Pete Steffens
Rabbis join Obama support group
Some 613 American rabbis, ranging across all denominations, have signed up as supporters of Rabbis for Obama, it was announced Tuesday by the Obama for America campaign.
Ari Rubin suicide continues pattern of violent JDL deaths
Ari Ephraim Rubin, vice chairman of the Jewish Defense League long led by his father, Irving (Irv) Rubin, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 20. He was 30.
Ari Rubin suicide continues pattern of violent JDL deaths
‘Women and War’
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Marissa Roth remembers her father and mother, both European refugees, as parents who repressed their emotions and personal suffering, and forbade their children to cry.
Fighter pilot Flint gets to Olympics—64 years later
‘Incident at Vichy’ probes moral questions of ongoing relevance
In 1964, the New York Herald Tribune asked playwright Arthur Miller to cover the war crimes trial in Germany of the Nazi officials who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
“Wally” explores dramatic Nazi looted art case
How one Italian village helped raise a child
Castilenti, a remote Italian mountain village, will be pulling out all the stops to welcome Gertrude (Gerti) Goetz and confer an honorary citizenship on the Los Angeles resident on Saturday evening, July 28.
Israel’s ‘Matchmaker’ now at your service
Academy elects Joseph Cedar
UCLA mapping project goes back to the future
When Todd Samuel Presner was “drilling down” through the history of Los Angeles, he noticed something unusual in a 1939 map of the city’s eastern part.
Kirk Douglas, 95, ‘Still looking forward’
At 95, Kirk Douglas has just released his 10th book and is prepping for his third bar mitzvah in December.
Shoah Institute gala celebrates completion of visual history project, laments continued genocides
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute hosted its annual Ambassadors for Humanity gala on June 6 with its customary panache, and there was good news and bad news.
“Yankles” aim for homerun
From “Immigrant” to American
Shimon Erem, 90, devoted life to Israel
Shimon Erem, who fought for Israel in four wars and was recognized as the “patriarch” of the Israeli community in Los Angeles, died Sunday (May 27) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a prolonged struggle with cancer. He was 90 years old.
Revisiting the Six-Day War, 45 years later
Tuesday June 5 marks the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War, turning point in Israeli history that, in the popular recollection, brought the new nation a swift, almost painless, victory marked by brilliant Israeli strategy and planning.
Alleged Israel mob boss Yitzhak Abergil pleads guilty in LA
Lust, spectacle on a biblical scale: Why we love silent films
Sure, you’ve heard of old movies, but one highlight of this year’s Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival reaches back 88 years, reviving the silent film “The Moon of Israel.”
Shoah Foundation presents inspiration award to Steven Spielberg’s father
The Four Seasons banquet room was teeming with Spielbergs, but for once it wasn’t producer/director Steven, nor sisters Nancy, Sue or Anne, who were in the spotlight.
UCLA doctor focuses on children’s health In new PBS series
For the first time in U.S. history, the lifespans of today’s children will be shorter than those of their parents, thanks to the American way of unhealthy living.
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Elie Wiesel honored by U.S.’ largest pro bono law firm
Germany started its long descent into brutality and murder when the Nazi regime began to corrupt the nation’s laws, Elie Wiesel told more than a thousand guests, predominantly lawyers, on April 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
With Tony Curtis profile, docs shine at Jewish fest
For its opening night on May 3, the Jewish Film Festival appropriately returns to one of Hollywood’s golden ages and to one of its most celebrated Jewish stars, Bernie Schwartz, aka Tony Curtis.
Conference to probe ethics of Holocaust studies, honor historian
What are the moral and artistic limits faced by a novelist, filmmaker, historian or artist in depicting the Holocaust?
White House rejects plea for Pollard release
“Jacob and Jack” combines laughs and soul
Gerald Estrin, U.S. and Israel computer pioneer, dies at 90
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Bnai Zion renews efforts in SoCal
Like old soldiers, Jewish organizations never die. For proof, look to Bnai Zion. Established in 1908 in New York as the Order of the Sons of Zion B’nai Zion, the organization has, over the years, changed its name and mission, and even lost its apostrophe.
Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon’s widow to attend school renaming event
Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who was killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster, will join in a festive event on March 25, marking the renaming of a Jewish day school in her husband’s honor.
Israeli consulate is relocating
Like anyone moving after 40 years in the same place, Ofer Mazar has a hard time deciding what to take along and what to discard.
Muslims and Jews vs. Nazis in French film
Retired general outlines his Israeli peace plan
An Israeli general named Natan (Nati) Sharony was in Los Angeles recently and, during a lengthy conversation with The Journal, ticked off his ideas for a peace plan assuring the present and future security of his country.
Peres and Perez seal Israel-Latino friendship
Peres winds up U.S. trip in Los Angeles
Cal State system to resume Israel study program
California State University, with 420,000 students on 23 campuses, has resumed its Study in Israel program at the University of Haifa, after a 10-year hiatus.
Oscar gold again eludes Israel’s grasp
Iran vs. Israel, at the movies
‘Footnote’ could make this Israel’s year to win [VIDEO]
For Israelis, winning the country’s first Oscar would be akin to scoring its first Olympic gold medal, which happened at the 2004 Games in Athens. “If ‘Footnote’ gets the Academy Award for best foreign language film, the reaction would be tremendous,” Katriel Schory said recently, on the phone from Tel Aviv. “We need any piece of good news, and it would cheer everybody up.”
Diplomat challenges U.S. Jewish views on France
Francois Zimeray, France’s ambassador-at-large for human rights, was in Los Angeles recently, and during a two-hour breakfast of croissants and assorted fruits, shared two observations: First, though Israel has real enemies in the world, it also has a lot of friends, and not everybody wants to put down the Jewish state.
George Clooney to chase Nazi-looted art
Jonah Hill, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, ‘Footnote’ in Oscar finals
A mindless week
Will this finally be the year for an Israeli Oscar?
Joseph Cedar’s “Footnote,” Israel’s entry in the Oscar sweepstakes for best foreign-language film, has jumped the first major hurdle by making the shortlist of nine semi-finalists.
Israel’s “Footnote” makes Oscar shortlist
Spielberg, Allen garner Golden Globes
LA judge, who ruled against Holocaust-deniers, dies
L.A. screenwriter tackles film on 6-Day War
Was Catch-22’s Yossarian Jewish?
Avner’s ‘Prime Ministers’ to be adapted for two U.S. films
Two American producer-directors, on opposite coasts, are in the process of turning Yehuda Avner’s book “The Prime Ministers” into separate films.
Poland honors Jewish newswoman
The Holocaust was in the details
No laughs for ‘Funny Girl’
Gil Cates, film producers, proud Jew, dies at 77
Norman Corwin, Bard of Broadcasting, dies at 101
Schoenberg buys Einstein letter for Holocaust museum
Iranian-Jewish community split on Namvar sentencing
Einstein letter on refugees sold for $13,936
Knesset member criticizes Netanyahu
A Knesset member visiting Los Angeles this week accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of buckling under intense pressure from President Barack Obama, who wants to prevent any Israeli retaliation against the Palestinian Authority (PA) in its bid to win recognition as a state from the United Nations.
Nazi duplicity laid bare in ‘Berlin 36’
The German film “Berlin 36,” set against the Nazi-organized Olympic Games of 1936, has much going for it.
Knesset visitor blasts Obama, Netanyahu
Edie Wasserman, Hollywood’s first lady, dies at 95
Galit Dayan speaks what’s on her mind — and in her heart
When Galit Dayan first met her future husband in 1987, both were serving in Israeli army intelligence units and she realized right away that nothing would come of the encounter.
Jewish, Lebanese-American congressmen target Hezbollah
Al Schwimmer, Israel Air Force pioneer, dies at 94
Berman and Sherman may face off in newly drawn districts
Dodgers to sponsor Maccabiah baseball tourney
Academy fetes Oscar-winner Arthur Cohn
Director Sidney Lumet dead at 86
Marek Halter to speak at Loyola Marymount University
Mel Gibson back in the news
Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” on stage
Is the Holocaust movie passé?
“King’s” view on Jews fact or smear?
Do or did you know Bob Dylan—The BBC wants you
Report points to real Daniel Pearl killers
Israel out of Oscar race
Debbie Friedman eulogized in song at funeral service
Kudos for Paul Mazursky
Meeting such interesting people
Sports Hall of Fame names LA horse trainer
School naming ceremony honors Stanley Mosk
Godard to be a no-show, film Academy announces
UCLA launches Nazarian Israel Studies Center
Skirball seeks help on Judaica artifacts
Gov. vetoes Holocaust bill
Deputy in Mel Gibson arrest sues LA Sheriff
Support your local scientist
Group seeks Israel divestment initiative on Cal ballot
ADL, Wiesenthal Center get full LA Times treatment
Director fights “R” rating on Warsaw Ghetto film
Remembering Daniel Schorr
California reports drop in anti-Jewish hate crimes
New Dead Sea Scrolls research on TV
Getty research to track looted art
Brit Brings Primo Levi’s Life in Auschwitz to Stage, Screen
After his liberation from Auschwitz, Italian writer and scientist Primo Levi observed, “To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one. It has not been easy or quick, but the Germans have succeeded.”
‘Lebanon’: An unflinching look at war
In the past three years, Israel has come up with a trio of films about the Lebanon war that, for unflinching honesty, are unmatched by Hollywood or, I believe, any other country.
First came “Beaufort,” then “Waltz With Bashir,” both landing among the five Oscar finalists for best foreign-language film in successive years.
Calif. Attorney General Joins Fight to Return Paintings Stolen by Nazis
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has joined a lawsuit to force the Norton Simon Museum to return two 500-year-old paintings to the heir of a Dutch Jewish art dealer.
Calif. Attorney General Joins Fight to return paintings stolen by Nazis
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has joined a lawsuit to force the Norton Simon Museum to return two 500-year old paintings to the heir of a Dutch Jewish art dealer.
Breed Street Shul Raising Funds With ‘Fiddler’
Congregation Talmud Torah, better known as the Breed Street Shul, was founded nearly a century ago. On May 16, hundreds of supporters will trek to Boyle Heights to put their money and enthusiasm on the line to assure that after decades of abandonment and neglect, the shul will come to life once again.
KCRW’s Ruth Seymour Offers Rich Legacy to Jewish Community
For a woman who says she has never been much involved in the Jewish community, Ruth Seymour has probably introduced more people to an appreciation of Jewish stories and music than any other Los Angeles media figure.
Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments, Biblical Artifacts on View in Azusa
Five fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and a collection of rare biblical artifacts will be on display May 21 through July 18 at Azusa Pacific University (APU) in Azusa.
European Diplomats Probe Anti-Semitism
A large poster by a Danish artist recently displayed in a Berlin public square depicted a map of the countries of the Middle East, with the name of Israel conspicuously excised.
Beverly Hills to dedicate Herzl Way
Israeli TV series hot in Hollywood
Jews, Evangelicals: Strange Bedfellows
Israel may have become a punching bag for much of the world, but 50 million Americans back the Jewish state 100 percent, no ifs, buts or maybes.
Israel film makes first Oscar cut
Meager Jewish angles at Golden Globes
L.A. synagogues focus efforts on crisis in Haiti
"We are tied together in a single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
U.S.-Israel flap after LA meeting
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