Ruthie the Foodie

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on March 21, 2011

Rice, Powell and Albright: Friends in ‘Retirement’

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on March 1, 2011

Revolutions spreading through the Middle East added timeliness and weight to the convening of three former secretaries of state by American Jewish University (AJU) on Monday evening, Feb. 28, at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk. Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, all active authors and advocates on the international scene, joined AJU President Robert Wexler onstage to agree on just about everything, and bicker over only a few matters.

Clinton, Bush to Appear Together During 2010 AJU Lecture Series

By JewishJournal.com
Published on August 11, 2009

Two former presidents will share the stage when American Jewish University’s (AJU) Public Lecture Series returns in early 2010. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are scheduled to appear together at Universal’s Gibson Amphitheatre on Feb. 22, the university announced Monday.

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through Feb. 2009

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on December 10, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Dec. 6 - 12: Poetry of La Norte, love and latkes

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on December 5, 2008

Annie Leibovitz, Ed Asner, Shelly Berman, Lainie Kazan and Elliot Gould

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on November 13, 2008

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Nov. 8 - 14: Healing Havdalah, comedy, films

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on November 7, 2008

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through November 2008

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on September 11, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on September 4, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 5-11

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on April 3, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 5-11

Karl Rove lecture spins crowd animosity to admiration

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 28, 2008

Karl Rove spoke recently at The Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Studios for the second in this year's Public Lecture Series from American Jewish University (AJU).

Could Tony Blair be the one?

By Rob Eshman
Published on January 17, 2008

There was one big question left unanswered when Tony Blair spoke last Monday evening at the opening of American Jewish University's (AJU) 2007 lecture series.

Lecturer’s Shoah ‘revisionism’ angers Conejo residents

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 19, 2007

The way Jews in the Conejo Valley describe it, Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the propaganda proffered as academic discourse at the Goebel Senior Adult Center last month.

Inside Shelley Berman, Again

By Sandra Tsing Loh
Published on March 9, 2006

Shelley Berman is 80 years old and hot, hot, hot. When he cups his hand over the phone and yells to his wife: "Where am I this week, Sarah?" he's not having a senior moment. Fresh from playing Larry David's father on the HBO series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," he's got bookings in Las Vegas, feature film shoots and network television tapings on top of his regular slate of teaching classes at USC. Shelley's current schedule would kill a person half his age, which is why, at 44, I'm functioning as his occasional producer, acolyte and coffee bringer ("Last time someone brought me hazelnut -- can't a person get an honest cup of coffee any more?") at 24th Street Theatre, where we're in the middle of a live Shelley Berman minifestival.

7 Days in The Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on March 2, 2006

7 Days in the Arts

Calendar

By Keren Engelberg
Published on April 7, 2005

Friends of Valley Cities JCC and Westside JCC: 7:30 p.m. Celebrity staged play reading of "Driving Miss Daisy"with Charlotte Rae, Charlie Robinson and Alan Blumenfeld. $12-$16. Valley Cities JCC, Sherman Oaks.

Calendar

By Keren Engelberg
Published on February 17, 2005

Calendar of events including upcoming events.

Windows to the Yiddish Soul

By David Finnigan
Published on December 16, 2004

Russia's Yiddish actors, playwrights and poets are some of the oft-forgotten victims of the 20th century's murderous Stalinist purges.

A Man Walks Into a Hospital and . . .

By Hank Rosenfeld
Published on October 28, 2004

Irving Brecher, 91-year-old wannabe-stand-up comic, is nervous. The Doctors Emeritus Society of Cedars-Sinai is at the buffet in the Harvey Morse room, a conference hall where the old practitioners gather every month to hear specialists on subjects like pain control. Sometimes a marine biologist will discuss Darwin.

A- and B-listers do Brecht for a pricey cause tonight. The one-year anniversary of The Edgemar Cente

By Keren Engelberg
Published on September 30, 2004

A- and B-listers do Brecht for a pricey cause tonight.

7 Days in the Arts

Published on September 23, 2004

7 Days In The Arts

Trick or Treat?

By Don Rutberg
Published on October 30, 2003

I asked my long-time friend, "Are you a strict father?" "Not really," he said, "but I wouldn't let my daughter out for Halloween."

Lecture Stirs Anger

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 27, 2003

A public lecture by a visiting scholar on the UCLA campus usually doesn't make much of a ripple, but nearly all of the 1,800 seats in Royce Hall were taken and the atmosphere was electric when professor Edward W. Said stepped up to the lectern.

Educator Sees Needfor Teaching Morals

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on February 6, 2003

Something vital is missing from public and day school curriculums, says Dr. Hanan Alexander, a rabbi, educator and author of "Reclaiming
Goodness: Education and the Spiritual Quest" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), which received the 2002 National Jewish Book Award in Education.

7 Days In Arts

Published on February 6, 2003

Beware the Yiddish Culture Club's karma chameleon.

Dealing With Divorce

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on February 6, 2003

The Jewish community has always pushed marriage. So when it comes to divorce, it is understandable that resources in the Jewish world are
limited.

Eat, Read and Meet Gary

By Journal Staff
Published on November 7, 2002

The following events are part of The Jewish Federation of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys' Jewish Book Festival.

Community Briefs

Published on October 3, 2002

Two lecture series, one on biblical archaeology, the other on the beginnings of writing, will allow participants to escape the unruly present and explore the ancient world of 2,000 to 5,000 years ago.

7 Days In Arts

Published on September 12, 2002

First the House Un-American Activities Committee and then the fall of the U.S.S.R. Apparently, it's not easy being red.

‘An Uncommon Friendship’

By Tom Tugend
Published on August 15, 2002

On the lecture circuit, Bernat "Bernie" Rosner and Frederic "Fritz" Tubach make for an odd couple.

A Matter of Opinion

By Carin Davis
Published on February 28, 2002

Rabbis to your corners. We want a clean fight, a fair fight, and no hitting below the beard. It's not the WWF Wrestling Smackdown -- it's the JSI rabbinical smackdown, brought to you live by the Jewish Studies Institute (JSI) Talkback Series.

Picks and kicks for February 23-29

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on February 21, 2002

Picks and Kicks

Clinton Talks at UJ Series

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 17, 2002

Community Briefs.

The Art of Hollywood Survival

By Michael Aushenker
Published on January 10, 2002

Mike Medavoy's quote on the back of his new book, "You're Only as Good as Your Next One" (Pocket Books), sums up what makes a successful producer or studio chief: "If I had a talent for anything, it was a talent for knowing who was talented." "It sums up what makes a good anything," Medavoy told The Journal. "If I weren't in this business, I probably would have been a teacher, which would have been fine."

The New Face of the UJ

By Tom Tugend
Published on November 29, 2001

A high-profile lecture series of top American and Israeli personalities is generating national attention and an unexpected financial bonanza. The university's continuing education arm is innovating new programs and drawing close to 10,000 participants. Enrollment in the young rabbinical school is running higher than anticipated.

Timely Talk of History’s Attic

By Mike Levy
Published on May 3, 2001

The timing could not have been better.

When the California Museum of Ancient Art scheduled its lecture series on "The Archaeology of Ancient Israel" to begin Monday, May 14, at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, it could not have known that Rabbi David Wolpe's Passover sermon touching on doubts about the historical accuracy of the Exodus story would spark a wave of local interest in Biblical archaeology.

Virtual Schmooze

By Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Published on March 8, 2001

We all hear rumblings about a global community, but a global schmooze? That's just what the Jewish Community Centers of North America, in conjunction with the 92nd Street Y in New York City, propose to execute. Starting on Sun., March 11, the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles will host an innovative new lecture series through Kallah -- a program sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and supported by the Charles and Dora Mesnick Cultural Arts Fund -- by bringing such speakers as Alan Dershowitz, Elie Wiesel and Anne Roiphe to you live, via satellite. The lectures will be broadcast from the 92nd Street Y in New York City directly to JCCs across the nation, allowing participants to ask questions to their lecturers in real time for what is being termed a "virtual gathering."

A Flame of Remembrance

By Michael Aushenker
Published on April 27, 2000

This Sunday marks the eighth year that the Los Angeles Holocaust Monument in Pan Pacific Park will serve as the local centerpiece of the annual Worldwide Holocaust Memorial Day, in memory of the 6 million Jews who were murdered in Europe at the hands of the Nazi regime. Hosted this year by the Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial Monument Fund, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and Second Generation, the Yom HaShoah gathering is expected to attract more than 2,500 people.

Focus on Forensics

By David Margolis
Published on March 18, 1999

Barry Fisher, director of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department crime laboratory, showed up in Jerusalem this week, invited by the Israeli Police Department to give a couple of lectures and the benefit of his 30 years' experience to the forensics people of the Jewish state. In a wood-paneled room at National Police Headquarters, along with about 25 Israeli police officers, I caught his second lecture, "Forensic Science After O.J. Simpson." (I will assume that, despite so many breathlessly absorbing high-profile murders and sex scandals since then, you still vaguely remember O.J. Simpson.)

Discussing Israel, Zionism and Peace

Published on January 15, 1998

Discussing Israel, Zionism and Peace.