Here are my favorite sections of the Jewish Journal report on LimmudLA: …for three days and nights of Jews doing Jewish right. …But more than what you learn, LimmudLA is about with whom you learn: It offers a chance for Jews of various and often opposing backgrounds to study, eat or just...

Today's Golden Oldie is from 1977. Chaim Nachman Bialik was Israel's great national poet. He lived in the pre-state era. The Hebrew speakers around him dreamed of an age in which a Hebrew-speaking state in the land of the Hebrews would be considered "normal". Bialik died in 1934. Fourteen years befo...

On Tuesday, October 9th, during an episode of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, comedian J. Anthony Brown made reference to a moniker that Karrine Steffans used during her days as a scantily-clad dancer in some of the most popular hip-hop and R & B music videos. After Brown called her “superhead,â€...

Filed under: Cinematical Seven It turns out that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are as much movie nerds as Quentin Tarantino and that their four Indiana Jones films are just as full of references and echoes. But while Tarantino discovered most of his favorites on video, Lucas and Spielberg probab...

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Angelina Jolie, Steven Spielberg, Cinematical Seven, Remakes and Sequels, Lists Lara Croft learns the trade from a very old Indiana Jones Most Hollywood blockbusters spawn their share of low-budget ripoffs, but only a few really successful movies are influe...

Mystics and Militants in ‘Discovering Rastafari!’ at the Smithsonian - New York Times Mystics and Militants: A Look at the Rastafari Kingdom Andrew Councill for The New York Times A display devoted to the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie at the “Discovering Rastafari!” exhibit at the...

As I write this, the beginnings of a pressure/eye strain headache is starting to throb. I blame it partially on the lack of sleep I got last night, and this time I can't blame Pidgeon's snoring. I am back to my insomnia days of yore, and it's not fun. We went to the gym after 6:00 p.m. last night, h...