What would my Israeli grandmother think?

By Rebecca Spence
Published on May 17, 2013

Managing Jewish Built Heritage Conference in Krakow—Opening will be live-streamed

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on April 22, 2013

Married to Medicine – Toya’s Hitler Ignorance UPDATE

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 15, 2013

Obama to host 2nd Jewish heritage reception

Published on May 9, 2011

President Obama will host another Jewish American Heritage Month reception, days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington.

Scrolls for sale

By Julie G Fax
Published on February 22, 2008

The calligraphy on the coffee-colored parchment is crisp and clear, with delicately ascending crowns adorning the Hebrew letters. But rather than being unfurled on a bima and read by a proud bar mitzvah boy, this water-stained fragment of a Torah scroll from Turkey -- thought to be about 300 years old -- is spread out on a drafting table in the backyard studio of Sam and Debbie Gliksman. The Gliksmans have recently launched Spiritual Artifacts, a business that preserves, frames and sells fragments from decommissioned Torah scrolls.

Oscar nod for ‘Unsentimental’ Jew

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 14, 2008

Profile of screenwriter, novelist, and playwright, Ronald Harwood, nominated at this year's Oscars for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."

Hebrew course piques Iranian Jews’ interest

By Karmel Melamed
Published on November 15, 2007

Also known as "Read Hebrew America," the course has been picked up by nearly 700 synagogues in North America during last 10 years through the National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP), a nonprofit organization based in New York. The objective is to promote Hebrew learning among American and Canadian Jews who have lost touch with their Jewish identities. While this is the first year Nessah has participated in the program, its leaders said the free Hebrew course has attracted more than 600 local Iranian Jews to its first three sessions.

Theater: Davidson’s retirement leads to ‘Lessons’

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 15, 2007

Gordon Davidson is back where he belongs, in the director's chair. The man whose name is practically synonymous with Los Angeles theater, who raised the city's reputation from a provincial backwater to the breeding ground for innovative and controversial plays, retired in the summer of 2005 as founding artistic director of the Center Theatre Group. Now he has resumed his craft, not at the Mark Taper Forum, the site of many of his triumphs and some failures for 38 seasons, but at the more modest venue of the Strasberg Creative Center's Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood.

Visiting Israel brings feeling of really coming home

By Ariel Cohen
Published on November 1, 2007

This past summer, I stepped off the plane and felt my feet touch the ground of our homeland for the first time. I was home. For 12 days in Israel, my family and I explored the land, went to museums and had a chance to connect with our spirituality and Judaism.

Grunions

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 7, 2007

The grunion were running last weekend, so I went down to the Venice Beach breakwater just before midnight to watch them mate. The sight of thousands of slim, silvery fish wiggling desperately out of the surf and struggling to spawn before the next wave crashed upon them made me think, of course, of those birthright Israel trips.

Briefs

By Kelly Hartog
Published on March 3, 2005

Briefs.

Falsely Imprisoned Man Files Claims

By Adam Wills
Published on May 6, 2004

It took a Long Beach Superior Court judge two minutes to free Thomas Lee Goldstein on April 2, releasing him after almost a quarter century behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. The white-haired former Marine from Kansas mourned a lifetime of missed opportunities.

Pulling Up Stakes

By Buzzy Gordon
Published on July 3, 2003

For someone only in his 40s, actor-director Robby Benson already has had a busy career. He also has had his fill of Hollywood.

Capturing Yiddish Theater

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 26, 2003

The Jewish Side of…

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 8, 2001

There was no red carpet or Hollywood glitz, but the first Jewish Image Awards, honoring outstanding work reflecting Jewish heritage in film and television, proved a lot shorter and funnier than the more celebrated Oscar ceremonies.

Veteran director Arthur Hiller ("Love Story," "Plaza Suite," "The Man in the Glass Booth") received the Tisch Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by the multitalented Carl Reiner, who spent most of the introduction pointing out why Hiller didn't deserve the award.

A Jewish New Wave

By Harry Medved
Published on February 12, 1998

Jewish filmmakers descended on this snowy townlast month for their annual 11-day-long holiday ritual of schmoozing,skiing and screenings, better known as the Sundance FilmFestival.

A Jewish New Wave

By Harry Medved
Published on February 12, 1998

Jewish filmmakers descended on this snowy townlast month for their annual 11-day-long holiday ritual of schmoozing,skiing and screenings, better known as the Sundance FilmFestival.