By Naomi Pfefferman, Arts & Entertainment Editor, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
• Published January 4, 2012
Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author of the international best-selling "Millennium" series, including "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," died in 2004 at age 50 of a heart attack, before the publication of his crime thrillers made him one of the most famous...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published December 7, 2011
A few different sparks led to last week's flare-up over a two-month-old Israeli ad campaign to lure home expatriates in the United States. An ad suggesting that a child of Israelis living in America would mistake Chanukah for Christmas. The claim by an...
Not a moment too soon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the plug on one of most pathetically inept marketing campaigns since New Coke or the Edsel. The ads, according to JTA's Uriel Heilman, were produced by Israel's Ministry of Immigrant...
Nov. 6-12 is Media Literacy Week, during which we are urged to focus on how we view, process and react to news and information. Groups like the local Gateway Media Literacy Partners (www.gmlpstl.org) promote the importance of critical reading skills...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will present Community Tributes: With A Little Help From Our Friends, to recognize those with whom the organization accomplishes its grassroots advocacy and education.Missouri State Highway Patrol, Bryan Cave LLP, Central...
"Delta is ready when you are," is a longtime slogan for the U.S.-based airline, but recent press reports that the carrier has caved in to obnoxious anti-Israel and anti-Jewish policies of Saudi Arabia suggest, at first glance that a more apt slogan might...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, Washington
• Published June 22, 2011
Among the issues the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when it reconvenes next October is whether an American born in Jerusalem may list his birthplace as Israel in his passport. That case probably will garner the most Jewish attention in a fall docket...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 15, 2011
It isn't just live performances such as "The Death of Klinghoffer" that can raise questions of propriety and appropriateness. The silver screen isn't immune to such debates.Of course, not every work that raises difficult issues is controversial. Films...
The Anti-Defamation League announces that local high school seniors Abby Abrams and Joseph Dardick are the recipients of the 15th Annual Meyer and Marcelle Kranzberg Memorial Scholarship Award. Each will receive a $2,000 college scholarship. In addition,...
Local community groups have organized several events featuring renowned educator, speaker and author Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin. Riskin's contributions to Israel and to world Jewry have made him one of the leading voices of today's Modern Orthodox Jewish...
An Open Letter to Malik Zulu Shabazz:Dear Mr. Shabazz:We've been forced to visit your island of hate and discrimination by reading about your antics in the news. Yet if you weren't so frightening, we would have invited you to a quite wonderful event this...
