Scene and Heard

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.

Featured

From left to right: Shapour Sedaghat, Pari Sedaghat, Izak Parviz Nazarian, Dalia Itzik, Consul General Jacob Dayan, Pouran Nazarian Photo by Orly HalevyWednesday, July 23, 2008

Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik meets with local leaders

On a break from her duties as Speaker of the Knesset, Dalia Itzik joined L.A. influentials for a dinner reception hosted by The American Friends of the Citizens’ Empowerment Center in Israel (CECI).

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Tony Shaloub, Carl Reiner, Solar Cookers, Green Hadassah, Zoo

By Danielle Berrin

Tony Shaloub, Carl Reiner, Solar Cookers, Green Hadassah, Zoo

Latest

Judea Pearl (right) is congratulated by Dennis Wint, president and CEO of the Franklin InstituteThursday, May 29, 2008

Judea Pearl gets Franklin Institute award; Beach services for Lag B’Omer

By Danielle Berrin

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Scene & Heard

By Danielle Berrin

Scene & Heard

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Scene and Heard

By Danielle Berrin

Scene and Heard briefs.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Demi Moore, Tony Blair, Mr. Mayor

By Danielle Berrin

Scene and heard.

Miri Ben-Ari performs at Women to Watch galaThursday, January 17, 2008

Cruisin’, shmoozin, doin’

By Danielle Berrin

Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin blowing the shofar before a portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Photo by Israel BardugoThursday, September 20, 2007

Chabadmania, Ed Asner, Jewish Big Brothers and Sisters

By Danielle Berrin

Circuit
Scene and Heard

(from left)Saturday, September 8, 2007

Chair dancing with the ‘Jersey Boys,’ Mikey Weinstein blocks prosyletizing Pentagon video game

By Danielle Berrin

Scene and Heard

Dr. B. K. Modi with Ruth and Judea PearlThursday, August 23, 2007

Sculpture? It’s a Klapper! Ballet in Bel Air

By Danielle Berrin

Scene and Heard

The fugitive chicken struts on South Doheny Drive. Photo by Eva Noah Mia SuissaThursday, September 28, 2006

Feathers fly as fugitive fowl frustrates Pico-Robertson

The case of the fugitive chicken.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Grown-up Ringwald gets ‘Sweet’ again—thanks to Fosse

By Naomi Pfefferman

Molly Ringwald will play Charity Hope Valentine, a nice but tarnished rent-a-girl who remains optimistic despite a series of humiliating misadventures.
"It's, um, not exactly the kind of thing I'm most associated with."

Hannah Taylor Gordon, here receiving her tattoo after her arrival at Auschwitz, plays the title role in the ABC miniseriesThursday, May 17, 2001

Anne Frank’s Changing Image

By Tom Tugend

Community Calendar

9/8/08 10:00 am
Picturing the Process: Landscape Through Time and Space

View events | Add your event



Candlelighting

9/12 6:45 p.m. PDT


Featured Stories

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
Ehud Olmert should be indicted, Israeli police tell prosecutors

Ehud Olmert should be indicted on corruption charges, Israel police recommended Sunday. Bribery is the most serious of the charges that police recommended against the prime minister to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz. Others include fraud, breach of trust and money laundering.

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

Singles
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