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A journalist’s perspective

Why are you asking so many questions and wanting to write about our community in the newspaper? Why do people care about Iranian Jews in Los Angeles? Do you really think you’re accomplishing anything by writing about our triumphs and failures in the newspaper?

Award to recognize Jewish Journalist’s 50-year career

The year was 1960. Tom Tugend, living in Israel and working as the temporary head of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s public relations department, had to make a choice: keep his job or return to Los Angeles to a UCLA job he’d had before moving to Israel.

Judy Toll is one funny valentine

So what can you say about a 44-year-old comedian who died? That she leaves a certain legacy of laughter, through the efforts of her brother, to those who never heard of her.

How Hollywood’s Hunt ‘Found’ Elinor Lipman’s novel

Elinor Lipman, writer of smart and often hilarious modern-day social satire, considers herself \”the luckiest writer.\” Her first novel, \”Then She Found Me,\” well-received when it was published in 1990 and selling steadily ever since, has inspired the film of the same name — starring, co-written and directed by Helen Hunt — that opens in theaters this Friday.

Theater: ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ — populism through a post-punk prism

A classically trained pianist who didn\’t write his first song until he was 24, Friedman thrives on intensive research — whether it\’s the hundreds of interviews that form the basis of The Civilians\’ plays, or historical research for \”Bloody Bloody\” — and draws musical inspiration from a seemingly limitless range of styles.

Books: Max Apple is a bard of the background

One of the best American short story writers, Apple has just published \”The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories\” (Johns Hopkins Press), his first collection of stories in 20 years. He writes with the same playful imagination and comic intelligence as in his earlier stories, layered with irony and an infallible sense of detail.

Books: Shmegegis of old, shmegegis of gold

Who doesn\’t love old Jewish comedians? Those mamzers of mirth and halutzim of humor who paved the road from the Catskills to Vegas as first-generation entertainers.

Films: The trials and tribulations of fathers and sons

For so many Jewish men, it always comes back to fathers and sons, despite what Philip Roth might think. Look at the films of Daniel Burman, the rising young star of the New Argentine Cinema.

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