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This Week Taught Me How Out of Touch I Am About Race
•This has been a week that's felt overwhelming. Here, in Santa Monica, my wife and I and our 22 year old daughter Natasha, all stayed at home. Although there was no looting or vandalism in our immediate vicinity, the street where my office is in downtown Santa Monica was completely… -
Herb Alpert Awards In the Arts Go Virtual
•"Artists are the heart and soul of this nation," Music icon, Artist and Philanthropist Herb Alpert said at the 26th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. "It's all about freedom of expression, imagination and truth telling.""They are our second responders," Alpert said in a telephone interview earlier in the… -
More Cultural Adventures At Home
•It seems like only yesterday...or maybe the day before? What day is it anyway? As one week glides into the next I"ve found that I"m not reading for pleasure as much as I normally do. I started a book some time ago, and find it strange that I can"t get… -
Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead - The Last Hungarian Actress of Her Generation
•Zsa Zsa Gabor has died at 99. As my fellow Hungarican wrote me: 'That's it. 2016 worse year ever.' Zsa Zsa was the last connection to my mother's world of Budapest and the glory of Hungarian women born before World War Two - a cosmopolitan, very clever, very adaptable, very… -
Cult of Luxury: Craftsmanship, Scarcity and the Hermès Brand
•How Hermès has succeeded in creating veneration-worthy items as well as a successful global brand is a story worth studying.Thierry Hermès was a leather harness maker who set up shop in Paris in 1837. The saddles, bridles and harnesses he made were prized by the rising bourgeoisie of Louis Phillipe's… -
The Art of the Rubell Family Collection Miami
•The Rubell Family Collection (RFC) in Miami, housed in a former DEA warehouse, is remarkable in many respects. First and foremost, as it name advertises, it is the collection of one family, Donald and Mera Rubell and their two adult children Jason and Jennifer collected over the last half century,… -
The Day Begins with "Evening": A Conversation with Nessa Rapoport
•NESSA RAPOPORT"S NEW NOVEL, Evening, has been hailed as 'smart, darkly funny" by Publishers Weekly, and Lilith called the novel both "deeply Jewish and (wait for it) deeply Canadian," adding that "[t]here's very little feminist fiction worthy of this claim." Evening is all that, as well as being a beautifully… -
Nick Cannon Could Teach a Masterclass in Bouncing Back from a Scandal
•Here are nine lessons from the TV host's redemption tour, which included a visit to an L.A. Jewish centerWatching the near collapse and resurrection of actor, rapper, and TV host Nick Cannon's career in real time has been a masterclass in reputation rehab. After Cannon was heard spouting anti-Semitic Louis… -
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… -
Adventures Among the Orthodox
•"NOTHING JEWISH is alien to me," philosopher Franz Rosenzweig said in the early 20th century. Rosenzweig hoped this phrase would launch a Jewish renaissance; however, the multiplicity of Jewish observance and experience has mostly led to mutual disdain among the varietals. As each branch of Judaism has set itself apart… -
Maggie Rose Earns A Seat At The Table
•The Music Business is filled with the stories of artists who knocked around for years before finding the right sound, releasing the right album, giving the right performance that made their career. If you can believe their accounts, Bruce Springsteen was a total failure until the day he was a… -
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…