Jewish History & Culture
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Dr. David Agus & his Obsessive Quest for a Longer Life
Ditch the Stilettos! Throw out the vitamins! Oh, and get a dog. Those are just a few of the trailblazing oncologist's rules for disease-free living in his new book... View Original Article -
Israeli Pop Legend Danny Sanderson Has a Date With LA
If you've been to Israel in the last 40 years or heard Israeli popular music, then you probably know Danny Sanderson, who will be performing with his band at the Gindi Auditorium at American Jewish University on Dec. 8....... View Original Article -
The Art of Lisa Edelstein
During the pandemic, Lisa Edelstein, the actor best known for her roles as Abby McCarthy in Girlfriends" Guide to Divorce, Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the popular medical drama series House, and as Alan Arkin's wayward adult daughter Phoebe on The Kominsky Method, took to painting. Seriously. Seriously and so well that her paintings are being exhibited at art consultant Lisa Schiff's exhibition space, sfa Projects, at 45 White Street in New York's Tribeca.The paintings in the exhibition, Lisa Edelstei... View… -
Works By Egon Schiele Restituted To The Heirs Of Fritz Grünbaum To Be Auctioned In New York City
Tonight in New York, Christie's will hold their 20th Century Evening Sale at Rockefeller Center.Among the works being offered for sale are two works on paper by Early 20th Century Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, from the collection of Viennese film and cabaret star Fitz Grünbaum. Grünbaum was not unlike Joel Grey in Cabaret, famous for his biting comments as a Master of Ceremonies.And although this is not really for me to say, I hope the works sell for a… -
The Joys And Oys Of Being A British Jew - One-Woman Show Comes To Santa Monica
"It's hard to be a Jew" is a Yiddish expression popularized by writer Sholom Aleichem as the title of his comic play that premiered at New York's Yiddish Art Theater on October 1, 1920.It could also be an alternative title for Suzanne Levy's one woman show, Dress British, Think Yiddish, directed by Stacie Chaiken, that is being performed next weekend for three performances only at the Santa Monica Playhouse (Saturday November 12, 2022, at 7:30 PM and Sunday November 13… -
Not So Quiet On The Western Front: Remembering The Activism of Universal Pictures" Carl Laemmle
Netflix recently started streaming a new German-made production of "All Quiet On the Western Front," based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 Anti-War novel. This is the third filmed production, with a 1979 TV version adapted by Delbert Mann, and the original Academy Award winning 1930 version. It is worth recalling the impact of the original and the way in which it galvanized the humanitarian efforts of Carl Laemmle.Laemmle, the German-born Jewish immigrant who was one of the founders of Univer...… -
The Fight for Democracy in Bernard-Henri Levy's "Why Ukraine"
"Ukraine can not lose," Bernard-Henri Lévy says at the end of his powerful new film about the war in Ukraine, "But it must be helped to win." And this film, Why Ukraine co-directed with Marc Roussel and co-written with Gilles Herzog, produced by Francois Margolin with Emily Hamilton and Natalia Gryvniak, which is being screened at the United Nations on October 27 and will be released in the US later this year, is in no small part dedicated to that… -
Here It Is: Larry Klein's Tribute To Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen who died in 2016, has since been memorialized by several tribute concerts, including ones led by his son Adam Cohen in Cohen's native Montreal and in Sweden led by the duo First Aid Kit (sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg) and their friends. There have been touring museum exhibitions, and post-humous books of fiction and poetry, and documentaries about Leonard and Marianne, and about Cohen's song Hallelujah.Leonard Cohen was an old soul. Among the cultural fixtures of the Sixt...… -
Ken Burns' "The U.S. And The Holocaust" On PBS
This Sunday, PBS premieres, The U.S., and The Holocaust, Ken Burn's three-part six-hour documentary, produced and directed by Burns, Lynn Novick and and Sarah Botstein.You might wonder what, if anything, there still is to say about the Holocaust, after so many, many films have been made about it, all over the world. Having watched many of those films, and as the host and curator of an annual Holocaust Film Series at the Holocaust Museum LA, I can tell you that… -
Steve Leder Wants You To Have The Last Word
Have you thought about any final words you want to leave your loved ones to remember you by after you"ve gone? My guess is that even if you have, like me, you"ve haven"t committed those thoughts to paper. Well, Steve Leder thinks you should and he has authored a new book, For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story (Avery), to help you do so.In Steve Leder's last book, the best-selling The Beauty of… -
The Real London Of Leon Kossoff
Leon Kossoff, one of the leading figures in Post-World War Two figurative art in Britain passed away in 2019. LA Louver in Venice, CA is now exhibiting the largest gallery show and first posthumous survey of Kossoff's work, Leon Kossoff: A Life In Painting (on view until April 9, 2022). Organized in collaboration with Annely Juda Fine Art in London and Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York, the show was curated by Andrea Rose, the former Director of Visual Arts… -
Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Will to See, The Ability to Act, The Drive to Inspire
Bernard-Henri Lévy has a new book, The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope (Yale University Press) and a documentary of the same name, both of which combine autobiography with documentary journalism and humanitarian activism. In many ways, it is a summation of Lévy's efforts over the last 50 years to give voice to the forgotten victims of genocides and to make a difference in the lives of the survivors.The book is composed of two parts:…