How Maurice Sendak’s Jewishness shaped ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
The children's book author was raised by Jews from Poland. A show at the Skirball in LA explores those roots
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Culture That Passover song about the goat captivated a famous artist who wasn’t Jewish
Frank Stella’s ‘Had Gadya’ series, now at the Skirball in LA, was inspired by a Yiddish picture book
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News In L.A., a new exhibit on the American deli reveals some Jewish truths
In the 1930s, there were 5,000 delicatessens in New York City. By way of comparison, Starbucks, which seems to be on every street corner, has 241 outlets in New York. And those delis were much more than just places to get coffee or a pastrami. “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a new exhibit at the…
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News Jessie Kornberg, incoming Skirball Cultural Center CEO, will focus on race and immigration
In the early 2000s, Jessie Kornberg worked on homelessness and children in poverty issues in New York City. After law school at UCLA and clerking for a federal judge in Memphis, she returned to Los Angeles and founded, Ms. JD, a non-profit supporting women law students and lawyers. Later, she became a trial attorney with…
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News How Uri Herscher reshaped Jewish L.A.
Every time I visited Dr. Uri Herscher in his office, I stopped to look at an old photo of him standing on top of a landfill beside a freeway. The freeway is still there, but the landfill has since 1996 been the Skirball Cultural Center, a nexus for education, community and culture in Los Angeles….
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Breaking News Los Angeles Synagogue Sues Over Destuctive Skirball Fire
(JTA) — The Leo Baeck Temple in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air has filed a lawsuit against the city and county over last year’s Skirball Fire. The fire, which broke out on Dec. 6, 2017, destroyed six homes and damaged 12 others, and required the evacuation of about 700 homes as well as…
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Food Brunch for 60 in Los Angeles
French toast with za’atar butter and seared tomatoes from “Modern Jewish Cooking.” Images by . A few Sundays ago, I cooked brunch in front of 60 strangers — on stage. I was at the Skirball Cultural Center, the gorgeous Jewish cultural mega-ship based in Los Angeles, doing an event in support of my new book,…
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Breaking News B’nai B’rith Museum Trove Will Go Public in Cincinnati
Two major Jewish institutions have stepped in to provide a home for the art and artifacts of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. B’nai B’rith International and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will display the Klutznick collection at the HUC-JIR’s Skirball Museum, located on the college’s campus in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read: How B’nai…
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