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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Jewhoo!

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

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

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

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

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

Archie comics lovers, rejoice!

Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Israel’s SodaStream inks deal with KitchenAid

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. . .







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