Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Jewhoo!

By Jonathan Kirsch

One of the profound changes in American popular culture that emerged during the 1960s was the willingness of famous Jews to openly embrace their. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Flamenco’s healing power

by Iris Mann

As her mother’s yahrzeit approaches, a middle-aged woman undergoes a crisis of the soul in the play “Heart Song,” currently at The Fountain. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

ROI Community Summit links new leaders

by Michelle Chabin

In 2010, Judith Prays, a 26-year-old multimedia expert from Long Beach, created a great deal of buzz (CNN, Time, “The Colbert Report”) by. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Technology makes education omnipresent

by Robert Abel

There was a time when students at Temple Israel of Hollywood Day School took annual fieldtrips to Spanish missions in California and wrapped up the. . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Billion-dollar Waze

by Simone Wilson

Just a couple of years ago, the Israeli entrepreneurs behind the traffic-fighting smartphone app Waze were knocking down the door of every news. . .

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Archie Comics feature film in the works

by Jillian Scheinfeld, JTA

Archie comics lovers, rejoice!

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Israel’s SodaStream inks deal with KitchenAid

JTA

The Israeli company SodaStream agreed to develop a home system for making carbonated drinks for KitchenAid appliances.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Barbra Streisand receives Honorary Doctorate from The Hebrew University

Jewish Journal

Barbra Streisand, after receiving an honorary doctorate from The Hebrew University, stands in front of the plaque of the Institute of Jewish Studies. . .

Monday, June 17, 2013

Barbra Streisand slams Orthodox Jews’ actions against Israeli women

Reuters

U.S. entertainer Barbra Streisand on Monday took a swipe at Orthodox Jews in Israel who compel women to sit in the back of buses and assault them for. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Abraham

by Bill Yarrow

I came late to sunrise. The hills were lit with goats. Everything shimmered in small steps. I closed my eyes.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Jewish roots of the ‘Man of Steel’

by Michael Aushenker

Seventy-five years after bursting into the world of comic books, something still feels Jewish about Superman.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

How you can counter hate on the Web

By Jonathan Kirsch

Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, is the Paul Revere of our era, and his latest call to arms is “Viral Hate:. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli author and journalist, dies at 83

JTA

Yoram Kaniuk, an acclaimed author and journalist who had the designation Jewish removed from his Israeli identification card, has died.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A questionable woman in the synagogue?

by Dora Levy Mossanen

Ah! How authors wax poetic about the allure of a vulnerable woman! How tempting it is for that mensch in shining armor to whisk that vulnerable. . .

Monday, June 10, 2013

Google set to buy Israeli navigation application Waze

by Linda Gradstein, The Media Line

When Dr. Gary Ginsburg, who lives in Jerusalem and works at the Ministry of Health, drives to Tel Aviv, he makes sure not to forget his smartphone. . .

Monday, June 10, 2013

Nancy Kricorian’s Holocaust novel

by Eleanor Bader

Several years ago, novelist Nancy Kricorian happened upon a 29-year-old documentary film called "Terrorists in Retirement" by French filmmaker Mosco. . .

Friday, June 7, 2013

Gunman kills five in Santa Monica, shot dead by police

Jewish Journal and Reuters

A gunman dressed in black killed at least six people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Soccer tourney brings Arabs, Jews together

by Julie Bien

Despite the summer heat radiating off of the soccer field, dozens of former professional soccer players from all over the world — and of varying. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Sravana

by Carly Sachs

Let the coffee pot and the crows, let the car horns and the upstairs neighbors.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Memoirs of Chasidic masters’ liberated Scion

By Michael Berenbaum

A decade ago, distinguished Orthodox filmmaker Menachem Daum produced and directed the documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America,” a. . .

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Music’s past becomes present

by Kirk Silsbee

At 62, the boyishly enthusiastic jazz singer and songwriter Mark Winkler has the moxie and perspective to mine and enlarge the jazz elements of pop. . .

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Dad who named kids for Nazis wears Nazi regalia to court

JTA

A New Jersey white supremacist who gave his children Nazi-linked names wore full Nazi regalia to a court appearance to request visitation rights.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Report: Talks between Waze and Facebook break down

JTA

Talks between an Israeli technology firm and Facebook reportedly broke down over the Israeli company’s insistence on staying in the country.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Getting a read on summer

By Jonathan Kirsch

Poetry is a literary enterprise with enormous allure to the amateur, and yet it is an art form that one can study for a lifetime. And who is a better. . .