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"Barfly" meets "Casablanca" in Mideast film
   Director Eitan Gorlin is fond of the Jewish saying that everything in Judaism can be understood on 70 levels. And it shows in his debut film, "The Holy Land," which opens in Boston 5 December. "The Holy Land" is a simple coming-of-age story, but one that comes loaded with a range problems expressed through the eyes of an Orthodox rabbinical student who falls in love with a Russian immigrant prostitute.
By Janet Saidi, search.csmonitor.com
05-12-2003

The Jewish Quarterly: a story of survival
   The roots of Jacob Sonntag’s fifty-year old vision of a Yiddish-English literary marriage remain strong as the journal he founded extends its life in a different kind of multicultural Britain.
Vanora Bennett, opendemocracy
03-12-2003

Pushing porn to the fore
   His hands flying above his spiked hair, Brian Grazer is flinging metaphors, connecting dots across three decades, trying to explain why for years he's been obsessed with the cultural significance of the 1972 porn classic "Deep Throat."
By Bob Baker, Times Staff Writer http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ca-baker23nov23,1,5921485.story
28-11-2003

Jewish Voices, "Entertaining America"
   "The nachas that I'm feeling right now!" crows Begley, using the Yiddish term for pride in the first of a string of untranslated Yiddish. "Because your dad was a mishpucha to me. When I heard I got these tickets to the Folksmen, I let out a geschrei. And I'm running with my friend, running around like a vilde chaya, right into the theater, in the front row".
By Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post Staff
24-11-2003

Director and cantor finds that plays
   Serbian Jewish theater director Stefan Sablic has another hit on his hands, a deeply disturbing play set in the 1930s about a German Jewish immigrant in America and his former best friend, who becomes a Nazi.
JTA.org
21-11-2003

On our bookshelf
   Nine new books sent to us by the best PR agents in the country - including one about JFK's efforts for Middle East peace...
Jewsweek
18-11-2003

The evolution of Jpop
   Jewish influence in pop culture has never been in doubt, but its evolution plays like a blueprint of how Jews have sought and gained greater acceptance in American society. Just what does our entertainment tell us about our Jewish journey?..
Bradford R. Pilcher, Jewsweek.com
17-11-2003

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