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The Hanukkah Film Festival will celebrate the Hanukkah season with eight nights of exclusive, award-winning new films. The Austin Jewish Film Festival is joining with film festivals, synagogues, and Jewish ...
Big mistake. “We don’t celebrate Christmas,” Lam snapped on their way out of the store. “Happy Hanukkah!” The Los Angeles screenwriter and producer, now 45, can’t help but laugh at that brief exchange — both because of his unfiltered childhood behavior and his fiery spirit to represent his Jewish culture that still burns within him like candles on a menorah. Advertisement “I guess it’s always kind of been ingrained in me that Hanukkah needed a little boost,” he said during a recent phone call with The Times. As the son of a cantor growing up Sherman Oaks, Lam was surrounde...
Stephen Wise Temple Hosts Drive-Thru âLIT Hanukkahâ Light Show Experience When writer and producer Michael Lam was a kid, he asked his dad, Stephen Wise Templeâs Cantor Nathan Lam, why they didnât decorate their house with lights for Hanukkah when it was supposed to be the Festival of Lights. âHanukkah is supposed to be fun, itâs a party,â Lam, now 45 said, remembering the yearly discussion. âI always thought, âwe should be allowed to put lights up.ââ Decades later, Lam is lighting up the neighborhood and lifting L.A. spirits with âL...
By Valerie Hernandez Dec 10, 2020 Hanukkah officially begins tonight and many of the traditional public celebrations like chocolate gelt drops, shopping-center menorah lightings have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, there's still plenty of activities to do safely to celebrate the holiday. You can see the list of activities below: Livestream the Skirball’s Hanukkah Festival The Skirball’s annual holiday extravaganza, complete with candle-lighting, sing-alongs and the Hanukkah story told via a puppetry performance will be on YouTube this year at 3 p.m. on December 13...
According to the history , the first Jewish settlers arrived in the tiny, Wild West pueblo of Los Angeles in the late 1840s. In 1851 (the year after California became an American state), census workers recorded eight Jewish citizens in Los Angeles, a town of roughly 1,600 souls. “All of them were bachelors who lived in their stores on the ground floor of the city’s lead commercial building, a two-story structure located at the southeast corner of Aliso and Los Angeles Streets,” writes historian William M. Kramer. The men were not single for long, and soon the Jewish population rose to ...