This week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on March 4, 2013

Suffering for Beauty

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 29, 2012

Alon Shalom:  A (hair) cut above

Published on May 2, 2012

Walking into Israeli hair stylist Alon Shalom’s new salon on Melrose Avenue is like entering a luxurious lounge in Marrakech. From sumptuous archways to Moroccan-inspired tiles, it’s easy to forget this is West Hollywood.

Author, psychiatrist Judith Orloff on the power of emotional freedom

By Orit Arfa
Published on October 17, 2011

Dr. Judith Orloff’s adolescence reads like a Jewish version of “Girl, Interrupted,” the 1999 film starring Wynona Ryder as teenage social misfit whose parents sent her to a psych ward. However, there is a happier ending in Orloff’s story.

Fashion & Beauty: Highlighting the hottest local Israeli designers

Published on September 16, 2011

Some of the top names in fashion today are Jewish: Donna Karan, Anne Klein, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors.

The skin under skinny jeans

Published on September 16, 2011

Those once-coveted outfits in your closet now elicit sighs of “I have nothing to wear” as last year’s trends take their inevitable plunge.

‘Beauty’ Is skin deep

By Tom Teicholz
Published on June 21, 2011

On the afternoon I attended the Annenberg Space for Photography’s latest exhibition, “Beauty Culture,” I was standing in the dark watching a series of fashion images projected in the digital gallery, when I was distracted by a woman who entered the room. I did a double take, as I recognized her as one of the iconic women featured in the exhibition, a former fashion model.

The Male Gaze

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on March 21, 2011

What is art good for?

By Gina Nahai
Published on December 3, 2008

I wonder every time I go into and out of the office, what art is for? To capture the truth of a person or a thing? To tell that truth in unexpected ways to people who expect it least?

Beauty can arise from tragedy

Published on September 24, 2008

As the events unfolded, it was a story that could only be measured against the biblical account of Job. It was everyone's worst nightmare.

Miss Sister: a beauty pageant for nuns

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on August 25, 2008

Contest, contest at the mall, who’s the fairest of them all?

By JewishJournal.com
Published on February 19, 2008

Israeli photo application promises more beautiful you

By Karin Kloosterman
Published on February 15, 2007

Since its unveiling in Boston, the response to the Beauty Function has been overwhelming: Media, including New Scientist and Forbes, have been eager to report on a computer program that can change the landscape of digital photography.

God Is Gray

By Rabbi Karen Deitsch
Published on June 15, 2006

Heaven, paradise -- choose a synonym: ecstasy, bliss, rapture. We use such words to describe experiences of perfect, supreme happiness, God on earth. The conditions on Sunday merited all such descriptions, especially that immaculately blue sky. Skies like that burn gloom away.

Home Pampering Easy as 1, 2, Ahhhhh

By Beth Gilbert
Published on February 16, 2006

No one deserves a spa experience more than you do. Just picture it -- warm tubs scented with essential oils, invigorating body scrubs, refreshing botanical blend face masks smoothed on in soothing circular massaging motions and misty showers with luscious gels.

Get Enraptured With the Central Coast

By Jewish Journal Staff
Published on November 3, 2005

Lack of Jewish Life in Greece Just Myth

By Beverly Gray
Published on October 6, 2005

Poets have been known to wax lyrical about "the glory that was Greece." Yet a visitor to Greece today quickly finds that the glory's not only in the past tense. While those who built the shrines to Zeus and Apollo are long gone, the people who inhabit modern Greece are unquestionably alive.

Jewish Life Blooms at Christian College

By Julie G Fax
Published on July 29, 2004

The breathtaking beauty of Pepperdine University inspires spirituality, surely not unintentional for the founders of this 67-year-old Churches of Christ institution, where instilling moral values based on a love of God is as much a part of the mission as academic excellence.

At the very top of the tiered campus is Pepperdine's School of Law. On its top floor is the office of Sam Levine, an associate professor of law who happens to be an Orthodox rabbi at the nexus of quietly flourishing Jewish community in the middle of a Christian university.

Viva Vashti

By Jane Ulman
Published on March 4, 2004

Indeed, to appropriate a popular bumper sticker, if you're not outraged by Vashti's bad rap, you're not paying attention.

Europe’s Tragic Melody

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 6, 2003

"Gloomy Sunday" is the English title for the more aptly named German-Hungarian film "A Song of Love and Death," but under either label it is a movie of exceptional visual and dramatic beauty.

Opening in the 1930s in Budapest, fabled in pre-war Europe for its handsome architecture and women, "Gloomy Sunday" starts as a good, old-fashioned love triangle, or rather a quadrangle.

Echoes of Esther

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on February 14, 2002

The Purim beauty pageant of 1956 is long forgotten in the shtetl that was Queens Village, N.Y. But for me it is the stuff of personal destiny.

Redefining Beauty

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 21, 2001

"Why don't we f--- this audition and I'll play you right now for the part?" she said. "If I lose, you'll never see me again. But if I win, I walk out of here with the script."

Head Trip

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on April 19, 2001

Jim Wayne has cut my hair for more than 20 years. He created first the wedge look and now the clipped curly style of my professional photos.

Dreaming C’s

By Teresa Strasser
Published on April 15, 1999

Either the apocalypse is coming, or I've been living in Los Angeles too long. Last night, I woke up from the most vivid dream, the kind that feels like it lasted all night, the kind of dream that feels like a journey through every emotion.