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In the 19th century, Jewish and European immigrants founded what would become New York's world-famous delis. The specialty food shops are now featured in an exhibition in the Big Apple.
In 'I'll Have What She's Having,' open through September 18 at the Skirball Center and then in November in NY, curators say the way to understand US Jews is through their stomachs
You can find out why Canter’s matzo balls are so big, and other lore, at the Skirball Cultural Center's deep dive into deli culture.
The history of delicatessens nationwide is the focus of “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Documentary The structure of After Auschwitz may be simple (talking heads and archival footage), but the cumulative effect of six women revealing the physical, psychological and emotional toll on Holocaust survivors is a powerful testament to individual humanity emerging from inhuman horrors. Director Jon Kean chronicled their adolescence spent in Nazi concentration camps in his 2007 documentary Swimming in Auschwitz. Kean's enlightening follow-up starts in 1945, when these young women (ranging in age from 16 to 23) began to comprehend that the pre-war Jewish life they'd kno...