Mother, Son, Dating & a Dancing Queen at the Bus

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 23, 2013

L.A. Rising For Women - February 14, 2013!

By Tera Greene
Published on February 6, 2013

The Dance of Love

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 18, 2012

Dancing With The Stars Gets Personal

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 3, 2012

DWTS: The New Season

By Ilana Angel
Published on March 20, 2012

Dancing With The Stars - UPDATED

By Ilana Angel
Published on November 22, 2011

Dancing With The Stars – Broadway Week - UPDATE

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 25, 2011

Dancing With The Stars - UPDATED

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 5, 2011

Dancing With the Stars from the Good Seats

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 4, 2011

Jersey Shore vs. Chaz Bono – Who is Classy? Who is Trashy?

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 18, 2011

Rosh Hashanah ‘in the house tonight’ dances into the new year

Published on September 13, 2011

Aish brings together rhythem, beats and davening for their 'Rosh Hashanah in the house tonight' dancing spectacle.

My Search for Manny Pacquiao Leads Me to Ryan O’Neal?  Score!

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 13, 2011

Why Chaz Bono Just Might Win Dancing With The Stars

By Ilana Angel
Published on September 3, 2011

Dancing With the Stars:  So Much For the A-Lister Idea

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 29, 2011

Jersey Shore: I am almost embarrassed to admit how much I love this show!

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 19, 2011

Dancing in Rabin Square

Published on May 4, 2011

I have danced in Rabin Square! That’s a major happening in Tel Aviv the night of Yom HaAtzmaut, Independence Day in Israel. I have bounced my noise-making hammer off my fellow dancers all around me. That is also a major happening on Independence Day. I have no idea what the symbolic meaning of those plastic hammers is, but they are everywhere on Independence Day. The day before, I have stood silently by my car in the middle of a busy roadway. For miles and miles I could see the cars stopped and the people standing at attention. They were answering the call of remembrance signaled by the sirens heard all over the State of Israel. We stood to honor all those heroes who had fallen while defending this land of freedom, redemption, and incredible opportunity. Yes, I have danced many times in Rabin Square to celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut, but this Independence Day, it is different.

Dancing on edge of memories in former café space

By Gary Wexler
Published on March 30, 2011

There is a tiny two-block alleyway in West Los Angeles that runs on a diagonal from South Barrington Avenue east to Pico Boulevard. The backs of small industrial buildings border one side. On the other, a chain link fence shields a packinghouse or shipping service. To look at it, you would never call it the street of dreams or the isle of atmospheric romantic intrigue. You certainly would never envision it as the pulsating focus of a once-young, vibrant new generation of American Jews animated by the lightning victory of Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War.

Avi Saidiner-Jacobs dancing

Published on March 16, 2011

Avi Saidiner-Jacobs showing off his dancing skills.

‘Dancing Auschwitz’ video gets mixed response

Published on July 15, 2010

A YouTube video of a family singing and dancing at Auschwitz has received more than half a million hits and mixed reaction.

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Dec. 27- Jan. 2: Hot Rod Chanukah, Moroccan New Years Eve

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on December 26, 2008

VIDEO: Sukkot services with the Happy Minyan

Published on November 9, 2008

The spirited, eclectic Happy Minyan of L.A. davening Hoshana Rabba concluding Sukkot. Guest chazans, New York's Yehuda Green and Lazar Wax, lead and deliver the cantillation.

MUSIC VIDEO: Hassidic prayerful dancing

Published on January 17, 2008

Joyous prayerful singing a la Rav Shlomo Carlebach? Sure. Now how about some prayerful dancing!

A Hole In One for a Good Cause

Published on August 3, 2006

Bram Goldsmith, chair of City National Corporation, and his wife, Elaine, long-time supporter of the arts, donated $5 million to the future Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, with the result that a 500-seat theater will become the Goldsmith Theater.

Two Shows Set the Stage for Chanukah

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on December 15, 2005

Two winters ago, in one of its traditional Victorian teas, A Noise Within (ANW), the classical repertory theater company in Glendale, staged a series of holiday readings from actors as varied as Ed Asner and Fred Savage.

The Circuit

By Norma Zager
Published on November 10, 2005

Circuit Updates.

Buenos Aires Let Me Dance to Your Beat

By Anthea Gerrie
Published on March 3, 2005

In Buenos Aires you wouldn't know about the Argentine economy's disastrous crash -- except, perhaps, by chatting with your taxi driver and discovering he was a former tycoon.

BA, as old hands call it, has retained its prosperous appearance and cosmopolitan cool, and it remains one of the world's most fabulous cities. In fact, given the peso devaluation, the once-pricey Argentine capital should be visited soon, while its delectable cuisine and shopping, some of the finest in South America, are a relative bargain.

No wonder this glittering capital was so inviting to the upwardly mobile Evita in the early 20th century -- this huge but green city boasts a level of European-style opulence and elegance equal to anything in Europe, and most closely recalls the finest residential neighborhoods of Paris.

Dancing the Chai Life

By Gaby Wenig
Published on February 3, 2005

Now, 40 years later, The Sarah Sommer Chai Folk Ensemble (Sommer died in 1969) is no longer dancing in basements or clicking their heels to accordion music. The nonprofit troupe is run by a board of directors and has a full artistic staff, including costume designers, choreographers from Israel and Argentina, and a technical team that ensures that Sommer's Israeli folk-dancing vision stays alive. The troupe itself now numbers 47 -- including eight vocalists, nine musicians and 20 dancers. They perform in large venues all over the world.

And There Was Music

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 3, 2004

At Sinai Akiba Academy recently, Bryna Vener vigorously conducted close to 100 first- through-eighth-graders in a passionate rendition of "Hava Nagila" as students danced in their seats. If the atmosphere was celebratory, it was because the assembly was a dress rehearsal for the orchestra's 25th anniversary concert and alumni reunion June 10, when graduates will return to fete Vener and her remarkable group.

VBS Reaches Out With Tunes and Tie-Dye

By David Finnigan
Published on February 19, 2004

Jewish tunes, Grateful Dead-style tie-dyed T-shirts and rows of singing, swaying, arm-in-arm Jews gave a summer camp feel to Valley Beth Shalom's (VBS) "25th Hour" event, which marked the end of the Valentine's Day Shabbat.

Nearly 400 people came to the Conservative Encino synagogue's festive but compact Feb. 14 outreach to the 90 percent of San Fernando Valley Jews not affiliated with a synagogue.

Cantor Steven Puzarne of Breeyah.

By Gaby Wenig
Published on May 8, 2003

Carole Levine had been a member of Temple Israel of Hollywood for 28 years. During that time, she attended temple only during the High Holidays. Recently, Levine has started going to temple more often. As a flautist for The Chai Tones, a 10-piece temple band, Levine finds herself at the temple now at least once a month, playing jazzed-up versions of the regular synagogue melodies.

Chabad rocks!

By Michael Aushenker
Published on September 5, 2002

Chabad of California's 22nd annual "L'Chaim to Life Telethon," hosted by Dennis Prager, was humming along nicely with a long roster of talent that included classic actors James Caan and Elliott Gould, comic actor Dom DeLuise and Israeli singer David "Dudu" Fisher. Then 10:30 p.m. rolls around and the KCET soundstage -- where the telethon is broadcast -- went amok. Enter the Sand Man.

7 Days In Arts

Published on August 8, 2002

7 Days In The Arts

Sunday in the Park

By Michael Aushenker
Published on April 25, 2002

"Security" and "unity." Those were the two buzzwords of this year's Israel Independence Day Festival. And both were in great supply in what turned out to be a festive and safe celebration of Israel and Jewish culture.

A Portion of Parshat Ki Tisa

By Abby Gilad
Published on February 28, 2002

Oh boy, do the Israelites slip up this week. They have just received the Ten Commandments, have heard God speak to them and have vowed to do all that God commands them, even if they do not fully understand why they must. Forty days later, they're dancing around a calf made of melted golden earrings and calling it a god! What happened?

Chabad’s Big Bash

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 28, 1997

Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin will once again be joined by JonVoight (left) and Jan Murray (right), at Chabad's annual telethon. As sure as the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, the dancing rabbis are returning to TV stations nationwide for the annual Chabad telethon. Nothing in modern culture quite compares, or quite illustrates just how topsy-turvy modern culture can be: Here are Orthodox rabbis in traditional 17th-century Polish noble garb dancing with Hollywood stars in Armani suits, espousing lines of ancient Torah via the most advanced satellite technology, giving a centuries-old pitch for charity, and taking payment via credit card.What a wonderful world....

This year's telethon will take place on Sunday, Sept. 7, from 5p.m. to midnight, on UPN Channel 13. Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, theWest Coast director of Chabad and founder of the telethon 17 yearsago, will lead the marathon endeavor, and comedian Freddie Roman willhost. Among the stars slated to show up -- and eventually dance withthe rabbis -- are James Caan, Mayim Bialik, Tony Curtis, Sid Caesar,Fyvush Finkel, Estelle Getty, Jan Murray, Tony Danza, Judd Nelson,Jon Voight, Regis Philbin, Edward James Olmos, Shelley Winters, theLimelighters, the Tokens and Ed Ames. Producer Jerry Weintraub ischairman of the event.