Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Living with Holocaust ghosts
By Susan Freudenheim
Ed Asner, aka Lou Grant, walked slowly to the front of the stage at the Museum of Tolerance on Sunday night, and in his familiar growl — this time. . .
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Beauty that heals
By Susan Freudenheim
Last Sunday, I took my first trip to Beit T’Shuvah. I’ve been hearing about this highly successful addiction treatment center for years and had. . .
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Beyond 'Kony 2012'
By Susan Freudenheim
A week ago last Monday, my daughter brought her laptop to the dinner table and insisted, “We have to watch this.” This never happens in our. . .
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Hadassah feminists
By Susan Freudenheim
Amid all the boozing, smoking and jumping from bed to bed in “Mad Men,” there’s a certain 1960s persona that’s missing from the popular TV. . .
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thank you Planned Parenthood
By Susan Freudenheim
Amid all the hubris and rancor flying around the subject of women’s reproductive rights these days, I suggest we stop for a moment and send a word. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Opinion: Debbie Friedman’s gift
By Susan Freudenheim
One evening last February, 1,500 people poured into the vast sanctuary of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, filling every inch.. . .
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Opinion: The back of the bus
By Susan Freudenheim
If Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy teaches us one thing, it’s that the fight for civil rights is not particular to a time, a place, a people or a. . .
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Opinion: Good writing counts
By Susan Freudenheim
Each autumn, the Milken Family Foundation throws one of the best luncheons of the year, and it’s not the fine kosher fare at the Luxe Sunset. . .
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
A moment for Angelina Jolie
By Susan Freudenheim
The draw of a Hollywood premiere for a film written, directed and produced by Angelina Jolie is irresistible. True to her A+-list status, Jolie’s. . .
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Opinion: Imagine
By Susan Freudenheim
On a particularly beautiful day like last Sunday, I, to be honest, had a hard time facing the prospect of spending the afternoon in windowless. . .
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Who owns a horror?
By Susan Freudenheim
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art right now, in the ground-level hall of the Art of the Americas building, right off the main courtyard, a. . .
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Opinion: Empowered women
By Susan Freudenheim
It takes a little effort to find the exhibition “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” at the Skirball Cultural Center. You have to bypass three alluring. . .
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Holocaust survivors’ 11th hour
By Susan Freudenheim
Last week, everyone was scurrying around Zane Buzby’s small but serviceable office, high up in a rather creaky building in downtown Los Angeles.. . .
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Opinion: Jetsons vs. Flintstones, a visit with Thomas Friedman
By Susan Freudenheim
Last weekend, I was talking to a friend in New York who is a top IT manager for an advertising firm. My friend is in the process of remaking the Web. . .
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Feminism, revisited: Gloria Steinem meets Mona Eltahawy
By Susan Freudenheim
When an e-mail arrived in my inbox recently announcing a public conversation between Gloria Steinem and Mona Eltahawy, I knew I had to be there, even. . .
Monday, October 10, 2011
Art Spiegelman: Behind the Mouse Mask
By Susan Freudenheim
Wearing a three-piece suit and looking more elder statesman than the artist he is, Art Spiegelman addressed an audience of about 100 at the. . .
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Opinion: Fighting to preserve Obamacare
By Susan Freudenheim
I broke a bone in my foot several weeks ago, and I’ve been limping around in an expensive, ugly boot and shlepping to doctors ever since. A simple. . .
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Opinion: A penny to get to Israel
By Susan Freudenheim
I’m standing in a room with Sheldon G. Adelson, the tough, outspoken billionaire casino magnate. And I’m wondering: Where is he?. . .
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Niceness, by the Book
By Susan Freudenheim
Right around the time the curtain was dropping on the opening night of Broadway’s new “South Park”-inspired musical, “The Book of Mormon,”. . .
