Music

Charlie Lustman. Photo by Jim Stein FeldtSeptember 3, 2008

Cancer gives musician a new song

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner

This time, Charlie Lustman hadn't come to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for medical tests or to endure another round of chemotherapy. Despite having lost three-quarters of his jawbone, Lustman had come to celebrate, to inspire -- and to sing.

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David CronenbergWednesday, August 27, 2008

Master of horror Cronenberg ‘Flies’ into opera

By Pat Sierchio and Naomi Pfefferman

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.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory

By Kirk Silsbee

One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.

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Slim GaillardWednesday, August 6, 2008

Paul Shapiro’s ‘vout’ mishegoss

By Kirk Silsbee, Contributing Writer

In 1945, the hippest Hollywood nightlife destination was Billy Berg's, on the corner of Vine and DeLongpre. A tall, suave black man named Slim Gaillard, who favored pinstripe suits, held court there. Black entertainers were seldom booked west of Western Avenue in those days, and Gaillard's appearances at Berg's were, in a very real sense, where Hollywood's racial integration began.

Nathaniel BarzidehWednesday, July 30, 2008

‘Dirty’ music needs regulation

By Nathaniel Barzideh, Tribe Contributor

It amazes me that regardless of one's age, gender or personality, music has the capacity to influence everyone. Songs have tremendous power over the human mind and carry potency to bring back memories, provide emotional comfort or change one's mood.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Write your own dirge for Tisha B’Av 2008

By Edmon J. Rodman

Writing your own kinah, or dirge, could help forge a more intimate connection with Tisha B'Av, the fast day that commemorates a series of tragic events in Jewish history

Anat CohenWednesday, July 23, 2008

Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen—so many roads

By Kirk Silsbee

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

JDub throws off the label and opts for change

By George Robinson

JDub was never supposed to be just a record label, and as JDub records celebrates its fifth anniversary with a free concert on July 27 downtown at California Plaza, it is more clear than ever that the organization's founders have greater ambitions than merely putting out good Jewish CDs

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

A Mensh on the radiowaves to recovery

By Naomi Pfefferman

Over the next 13 years, Mensh snorted cocaine (sometimes off the turntables at his disc jockey gigs), added acid and Quaaludes to the mix, and imbibed to the point that he blacked out, only to awaken in a ditch or a stranger's car or bed.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: The Jewish-Arabic Ensemble for Classical Arabic Music

By The Web Guy

The Jewish-Arabic Ensemble for Classical Arabic Music, from the Jerusalem Music Centre, according to the video credits. We don't really know who they are or what they are playing, but, wow!

Sunday, July 6, 2008

AUDIO: Al Jolson stars as ‘The Jazz Singer’—Lux Radio Theatre 1947

By The Web Guy

In this June 1947 production, Al Jolson reprises his most famous silver screen role as "The Jazz Singer."

Singer/songwriter Kinky Friedman, above, "dangles and discards preconceptions about cowboys, the Wild West, country music - and Jews," Gruber says.Tuesday, July 1, 2008

From klezmer to country—linking the soundtracks

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

What are the inks between Europe's obsession with things Jewish and the Wild West?

Thursday, June 26, 2008

The source of häMAKOR -- it's all in the family

By Paula Roth, Contributing Writer

When Israeli band häMAKOR headlined the Israel Day Concert in Central Park, front man Nachman Solomon walked onstage with an Israeli flag draped around his shoulders and blue-and-white souvenir sunglasses tucked into his jeans pocket

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

AUDIO: The Jewish Bob Dylan (June 15, 1972)

Bernard Timberg analyzes the songs of Bob Dylan looking for Jewish themes and imagery. KPFA-FM. June 15, 1972

Friday, June 20, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Timofeyev Ensemble—‘Shloyme’

A musical biography of a fictional character Shloyme, who survived through many calamities of the 20th century . . .

Brooks ArthurWednesday, June 18, 2008

Brooks Arthur brings stars’ hearts and humor to ‘Jewish Songbook’ CD

By Naomi Pfefferman

Music producer Brooks Arthur turns nostalgic with a new CD of classic Jewish music

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The ‘Chronicles’ of the musical rabbi

By Rick Schultz

Anvil's middle-aged metal heads (from left) Ivan Hurd, Steve "Lips" Kudlow, Robb Reiner and Glen "G5" Gyorffy. Photo by Brent J. CraigThursday, June 12, 2008

The heavy metal band that could

By Naomi Pfefferman

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Melding world’s sounds, Ben Ari seeks harmony

By Meredith Price Levitt

He's been called the Israeli Bob Marley and the king of Israeli soul. Others claim that he may be the call to prayer that we've all been waiting for from the Middle East

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Pilar Millhollen puts it all on the ‘Line’

By Shoshana Lewin Fischer

"When I was 14, I saw the first national tour of 'Crazy For You,' she said. "I saw that show and that's what made me want to be a dancer. It was the most wonderful thing I've every seen."

(From left) Cantor David Propis, Ray Barnes, Noreen Green, Cantor Alisa Pomerantz-Boro and Cantor Ilan Davidson, photographed in the founder's room at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, May 22.Thursday, May 29, 2008

Jewish Symphony finds ‘Kindred Spirits’ in gospel choir

By Celia Soudry

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Arts
Not your average ‘schlub’—a memoir

Max Gross, by his own admission, used to be your average schlub: He sported an unkempt Jewfro, the bottoms of his jeans were tattered and he'd gamely put a good burger before a diet.

Elections
McCain accepts nomination, offers little new on Israel, Iran

John McCain closed out the Republican convention Thursday night with a speech in which he defended traditional GOP policy points, while criticizing his party's recent performance and pledging to work with lawmakers across the aisle.

Israel
VIDEO: Archaeologists excavate 2100-year-old wall in Jerusalem

A 2,100-year-old section of the wall surrounding Jerusalem, dating from Hasmonean times, has been unearthed on Mount Zion, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The excavations have revealed part of the expanded southern city wall, from the Second Temple period, when ancient Jerusalem was at its largest.

U.S.
Michele Obama’s cousin’s cousin is a rabbi; Abbas met with Kuntar

A cousin of the wife of Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is a cousin of this country's most prominent black rabbi, according to a report in The Forward.

Los Angeles
Rabbi Sharon Brous wins $100,000 award for ‘Inspired Leadership’

Since Sharon Brous, 34, founded her alternative synagogue four years ago, IKAR's young rabbi has frequently been identified as an innovative spiritual leader, someone successful at engaging disaffected younger Jews by marrying Torah learning with progressive social action.

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
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited

I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.

Music
Cancer gives musician a new song

This time, Charlie Lustman hadn't come to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for medical tests or to endure another round of chemotherapy. Despite having lost three-quarters of his jawbone, Lustman had come to celebrate, to inspire -- and to sing.

Los Angeles
Rabbi Sharon Brous wins $100,000 award for ‘Inspired Leadership’

Since Sharon Brous, 34, founded her alternative synagogue four years ago, IKAR's young rabbi has frequently been identified as an innovative spiritual leader, someone successful at engaging disaffected younger Jews by marrying Torah learning with progressive social action.

Calendar
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs

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True confessions of an online dating addict #5: Shopping for a new date

There's nothing better than coming home from a bad date and shopping for someone else.

Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity

Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.

Religion
PETA says Agriprocessors misled rabbis about slaughter procedures [VIDEO]

An undercover video shot at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant is prompting new claims that the company engages in inhumane slaughter and misled Orthodox rabbis who visited the plant in July.

Opinion
Joon

Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always