Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Maccabi Tel Aviv back on top but coach future uncertain

by Ori Lewis, Reuters

Champions Maccabi Tel Aviv have reasserted their dominance of Israeli soccer but media reports on Tuesday suggested they might have to continue their. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Here Today

by Esther Cohen

God is here today. She is a spectacular god...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Memories of Auschwitz, on a return trip

by Elaine Margolin

How does any man survive unspeakable trauma? After 70 years of controlled silence, Otto Dov Kulka, Czech-born Holocaust historian and Professor of. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

‘The Property’: Graphic in gray areas

by Michael Aushenker

Rutu Modan’s recently released graphic novel, “The Property,” is the latest in a long line of works using the medium to express the Jewish. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Read this article, bubala!

by Jon E. Drucker

Back in the 1970s, when I attended the freshly integrated Fairfax High School, black and Chicano gangs would spar in the lunch yard. I used to joke. . .

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Funny music, sad life

By Jonathan Kirsch

On an otherwise unremarkable day in 1938, a chubby but charming student at John Burroughs Junior High in Los Angeles “cracked the code of his comic. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Mezzo’s Kibbutz roots

By Tom Tugend

It’s a long way from Kibbutz Dalia, where Rachel Frenkel was raised, to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, but the mezzo-soprano. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Press photo group stands by winning shot of Gaza funeral

JTA

World Press Photo says it has confirmed the veracity of an award-winning photograph of a Gaza funeral.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Amy Winehouse exhibit opening at London’s Jewish Museum

by Jana Banin, JTA

Most of the images we’ve seen of Amy Winehouse tend to depict only the wild and tragic parts of her life. That’s about to change.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Hank Greenberg in extra innings

by David Holzel, JTA

"I think Hank Greenberg was the great American hero," Washington filmmaker Aviva Kempner says. "What he did on Yom Kippur. What he faced. He was our. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The ‘light’-er side of Temple Israel of Hollywood

by Jared Sichel, Staff Writer

Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) lived up to its name on April 28 when it threw a free biblically themed matinee musical, “Let There Be Light,”. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The mishegoss of mom, shmaltz-free

by Evan Henerson, Contributing Writer

Anybody who has trod the boards knows that little blitz of stage fright that can flood through an actor when a member of the family is in the. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Daniel Rolnik: ‘The world’s most adorable art critic’

by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer

Daniel Rolnik bills himself as “The World’s Most Adorable Art Critic,” and if you speak to him for even a minute, it’s easy to see why.. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

After erroneous denials, Stephen Hawking affirms boycott of Israel

JTA

British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking clarified Wednesday that he decided to cancel a planned visit to Israel to adhere to an academic boycott of. . .

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Hank Greenberg's Jewishness

By Jonathan Kirsch

The big question in Detroit in the fall of 1934 had nothing to do with the troubled state of the world. Rather, the fans of the Detroit Tigers wanted. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

What it really feels like to be alive today

by Elaine Margolin

David Shields, author of the hotly debated “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,” has bewitched us once again with his innovative genre-bending. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

U.S. official talking ‘blood diamonds’ with Israel

JTA

A top U.S. official is traveling to Israel to discuss trade with a focus on conflict diamonds.

Friday, May 3, 2013

On Jewish writing

by Erika Dreifus

I’m noticing a trend among my coreligionists-who-write: arguing against being “labeled” as Jewish writers — especially when they are. . .

Friday, May 3, 2013

Google edition adopts ‘Palestine’

JTA

Google has changed the title on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Buffett completes purchase of Israeli company for $2 billion

JTA

American billionaire Warren Buffett paid $2 billion for the remaining 20 percent of the Israeli firm Iscar.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Sotheby’s: Steinhardt Collection ‘most valuable’ Judaica auction ever

JTA

An auction of the 500-piece Judaica collection owned by philanthropist Michael Steinhardt was the “most valuable auction of Judaica ever held,”. . .

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ghosts of Communism

By Jonathan Kirsch

Two weeks ago, my wife, Ann, and I completed our first trip to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Everywhere we went, our local guides proudly. . .

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Blue Numbers

by David Gershator

those numbers on your forearm you don’t try to hide them

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

BBC slammed for pulling documentary on Jewish exodus from Jerusalem

JTA

An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D.