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Scene from 'Noodle'August 28, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Aug. 30-Sept. 5: Painting, a benefit, jazz, flies

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

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Los Angeles Jewish Symphony (See Sunday's listing)Friday, August 22, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks August 23 - 29: Benny Goodman, opera, magic and more

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

This may be your only chance to help a budding filmmaker out and see "The Impossible Itself."

(Front row, from left) JVS Scholarship Fund Circle of Honor donors Shirley Phillips, Polly Marks Weinberg and Bernie Harris. (Back row, from left) Circle of Honor donors Jack Paul, Edgar Phillips Jr., Herb Weinberg, Salli Harris and former JVS president Rick Powell.Friday, August 15, 2008

Saluting Milo, AARP and Waxman, Delshad for Sderot

By Danielle Berrin

What would young Israelis from Sderot do during an all-expense-paid trip to Los Angeles? See Adam Sandler in "Don't Mess With the Zohan," of course.

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Arsen Serobian as SpartacusFriday, August 15, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks August 16-22: Politics, dance, education and music

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Jamie M. Fox -- see WednesdayThursday, August 7, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks August 9-15: Tisha B'Av, music, opera, comedy and Brad A. Greenberg

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

There's nothing like a heated, intelligent political debate to get Jews' social synapses firing. Jewish Journal staff writer, Brad Greenberg, a.k.a. The God Blogger, will be holding the reins of "The Young Jewish Vote," where Republican Jewish Coalition Director Larry Greenfield will face Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Pasadena) in a battle to win the hearts and educated minds of young Jewish professionals between the ages of 21 and 39

Rosanna Gamson in 'Tov' See Sunday's listingFriday, August 1, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks for August 1-7, 2008: Dance, comedy, sports, theater, politics

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Stephanie PressmanThursday, July 24, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks July 26-August 1—Rothman, Pressman live

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Painting by Eli Lesky See SundayFriday, July 18, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks July 19-25: Psychedelic justice, art on the sand, women on drums

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Cool events around SoCal, personally picked by the Calendar Girls

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for July 12 - 18—Hadassah, the cosmos and more

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Shipwrecked. See Friday listing.Thursday, July 3, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for July 5 - 11

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

'Live and Become'. See Saturday listing.Friday, June 27, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 28 - July 4

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Valerie HarperFriday, June 20, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 21-27

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Lewis BlackThursday, June 12, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 14-20

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Shat signs SundayThursday, June 5, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for June 7-13

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 24-30

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin; with contributions from Celia Soudry

Cool things to do next week

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Calendar Girls clicks and picks May 17-23

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

When filmmaker Ben Byer sets out on a global quest to find a cure for ALS, the neurodegenerative disease crippling him, he discovers the will to survive.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Scene & Heard

By Danielle Berrin

Scene & Heard

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Calendar Girl clicks and picks for May 10-16

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Events May 10-16, 2008

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 3-9

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for May 3-9

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 26-May 2

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin

Winner of the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, "Jellyfish" is another example of the remarkable cinematic explosion of Israeli films garnering

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 19-25

By Dikla Kadosh

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Arts
Q&A with author Jonathan Kirsch: Is Bush bringing back the Inquisition?

I did say in my book that many of the same rationales that are articulated by the Bush administration and the Bush Justice Department were first articulated by the Inquisition

Elections
Biden’s the one

Biden is just naturally what the Democrats used to be, the party of lunch- pail-carrying working people, not politically correct, prone to saying inappropriate things, but with a great credibility

Israel
In the J-blogosphere, everybody knows your screen name

"I didn't know there were non-Jewish bloggers," joked Likud leader and blogger Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, who made a last-minute appearance to speak to the bloggers.

U.S.
Agriprocessors rebukes Obama, Israel sends flood aid to Ukraine

Nathan Lewin, who is representing the largest kosher meat producer in the United States, in a statement released early Tuesday wondered whether Barack Obama had weighed the evidence in the case or considered the company's repeated denials.

Los Angeles
P. S. Tikkun Olam: Veteran Jewish educator opens charter school driven by vision of a community

"We want to nurture a diverse body of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community and have respect for themselves and others."

World
Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?

With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary

Kids & Teens
Back to school, Yiddish for kids

Do your grandparents ever talk in Yiddish when they don't want you to know what's going on?

Music
Master of horror Cronenberg ‘Flies’ into opera

Cronenberg will direct the United States premiere of the opera based on what is perhaps his best-known work: his 1986 remake of the 1958 film, "The Fly," which in turn was based on a 1957 George Langelaan short story.

Los Angeles
P. S. Tikkun Olam: Veteran Jewish educator opens charter school driven by vision of a community

"We want to nurture a diverse body of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community and have respect for themselves and others."

Calendar
Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Aug. 30-Sept. 5: Painting, a benefit, jazz, flies

Singles
True confessions of an online dating addict #4: Ben sounds cool and he lives nearby

Torah Portion
Taking time for yourself

Parshat Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) The parsha begins: "See [re'eh, singular] I place before you [lifnei'chem, plural] today blessing and curse". Why begin in the singular and finish in the plural?

Religion
PETA slams N.Y. kapparot ritual [VIDEO]

For the second year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has complained about the High Holy Days ritual of swinging a chicken over one's head, a sin-transference ceremony

Opinion
Biden’s the one

Biden is just naturally what the Democrats used to be, the party of lunch- pail-carrying working people, not politically correct, prone to saying inappropriate things, but with a great credibility