Jewish History & Culture
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Another Tel Aviv: "Asylum City" Streaming on ChaiFlicks
Asylum City is a gripping 2018-2019 Israeli one-hour drama series in Hebrew with English subtitles that debuted this week on ChaiFlicks, the streaming service devoted to Jewish interest content (available online or for viewing on the ChaiFlicks app on your favorite streaming platform).At its center is a murder mystery set in Tel Aviv. However, what makes Asylum City remarkable and distinctive is that it is shows parts of Tel Aviv that most of us have never seen or did not… -
Dylan Casts A Surprising Shadow
August 10, 2021By Tom TeicholzThis article appeared on Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/08/10/dylan-casts-a-surprising-shadow/?sh=29cc937768ebTrailer for Shadow Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwI_OtESIE&ab_channel=BobDylanYou’ve got to hand it to Bob Dylan. He continues to surprise. And delight. And confound. And to earn our respect simply, as he once wrote of Woody Guthrie, “Cause there's not many men that done the things that you've done.” Dylan just turned 80. In December 2019, he gave his last live performance before Covid/Pandemic lockdowns put a pause to his “never-ending tour,” so called because of Dylan’s… -
The Broad Museum Reopens
Eli Broad, the Los Angeles real estate magnate turned philanthropist, civic leader, and art collector, died April 30, 2021. His legacy is most evident on Grand Street in downtown Los Angeles, home to the Frank Gehry masterpiece Walt Disney Hall, as well as his namesake museum, The Broad Museum, repository of his art foundation's collection which, regrettably, he did not live to see reopen.But The Broad has indeed reopened, and they have done so with a brilliant new re-installation of… -
A (Virtual) Journey With The People of Jerusalem
At the close of every Passover Seder attendees are enjoined to proclaim, "Next Year in Jerusalem!"You need not wait. Mekudeshet, a Jerusalem-based cultural organization is offering up a virtual experience Dissolving Boundaries: A Journey with the People of Jerusalem, that you can order online and experience in your own home and while walking around your neighborhood (it costs $48 and can be ordered here).Mekudeshet (which means "belonging") is an arts organization that, as its press materia... View Original Article -
Tobi Kahn's Visual Seder
"To think visually is a capacity not just for artists; it is essential for everyone." With these words the visual artist Tobi Kahn concludes the artist statement that accompanies the just published "Mishkan Haseder," a new Passover Haggadah published by the Central Conference of Rabbis (CCR).This new edition comes replete with new translations, new Rabbinical commentaries, all enhanced by an awe-compelling selection of poems by Yehuda Amichai, Maxine Kumin, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, Ma... View Original Article -
Life, Death And Rabbi Leder: Inside "The Beauty Of What Remains"
Steve Leder, Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, one of (if not the) largest Jewish congregations in the United States, has written a new book, "The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift" (Avery Books) that is about death and how acknowledging and facing our own mortality can make for a richer life.With this book, Leder continues on his path of writing about the beauty and spiritual dimension of the most mundane of human experiences.… -
Myself and Maisel, a Documentary
"Jay Myself," is a reverential documentary portrait of photographer Jay Maisel by noted photographer Stephen Wilkes, Maisel's one-time apprentice. The framing device for the story is Maisel's having to vacate the New York City building at 190 Bowery where he"d lived and worked for the last 48 years.What makes this "moving day" film all the more remarkable is that Maisel owned and occupied the entire six-story former bank building â all 72 rooms of the 1898 Germania Bank Building. Over… -
Rudi Gernreich: Fashion-Made For These Times
Rudi Gernreich has arrived at the Skirball in a new exhibition, "Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich" as a Culture-shaking creator, activist and a human being whose time has come â some 30 years after his death (the exhibition runs until September 1, 2019 ).Gernreich is best known as a celebrated LA based fashion designer â world famous for his "mono-kini" (a topless bathing suit for women), his 60s knits and unisex fashions.In truth, at the time of Gernreich's death in 1985,… -
Painted Words, Day-Glo Posters and Hotel Rooms: The Influence Of Allen Ruppersberg
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (through May 12, 2019), features an artist you may not know well and the extent of whose influence you never realized â until this exhibition.To set this in context: One of the most significant developments in Los Angeles in the last decade has been that as LA continued to rise in prominence as a 21rst Century hub for creativity and art, its cultural institutions have looked back to… -
My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018
My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018 April 8, 2018 By Tom Teicholz My father's cousin Michael Sherwood, 95, -- died this week. He was probably the last person who knew my father in Poland and knew of their life then. Here is the eulogy I wrote to be read at his funeral (which I was sorry that I could not attend). I would like to say a final goodbye to Mike – Misha- born Meyer Teichholz in Tarnopol, Poland. Mike… -
The Getty Museum's Freakin' Amazing Ancient Hebrew Manuscript
"Freakin" Amazing!"Those are words I never expected to hear from Rabbi Steven Leder, the senior Rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles (the congregation to which I belong).Rabbi Leder was marveling at the Getty Museum's latest acquisition, The 13th Century Rothschild Pentateuch (which is also the first Hebrew manuscript in the Getty's collection). View Original Article -
Tsinandali: Zubin Mehta Leads the IPO in an Enchanted Evening of Music in Georgia's Kakheti Region
To listen to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) conducted by Zubin Mehta playing Tchaikovsky in a newly constructed 1000-person open-air auditorium at a country estate on a summer’s night is heavenly and it is hard to imagine a classical music experience more intimate and emotional. Even more remarkable, this concert was taking place on the grounds of the Tsinandali Estate in the Republic of Georgia’s Kakheti region, some two and a half hours from Tbilisi, the capital, to launch a…