INTERVIEW

By Bessy ADUTDr. Kirsten C. Kunkle is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Wilmington Concert Opera, the women and minority run opera company based...

By Bessy ADUTThe 20th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival begins on Thursday, June 26, with a full week of new films. The opening night gala film is a pr...

An interview with the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival´s Director Hilary Helstein on celebrating 20 years and changing a community one film at a time...

By Bessy ADUTJoel Orloff is an animator who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He has led animation teams for a number of award-winning documentary pr...

By Bessy ADUTOren Rudavsky is currently adapting his award-winning 2004 documentary "Hiding and Seeking" as a drama. He is working on "Remembrance of ...

“At the university, we went to towns and unions to create bulletins and popular radio stations. Another world opened up to me, very different from the one at home and from the university. And I learned to listen and my curiosity for everything that was different from me increased. I also learned to have a critical point of view” Cynthia Rimsky

By Bessy ADUT Like many of the professional athletes he photographs, Andrew D. Bernstein is recognized as an all-star in sports photography. The ...

By Bessy ADUTKaren-Eileen Gordon is an accomplished film, television, voiceover, and stage actor. Best known for her role in the HBO comedy, Curb Your...

On December 17th, 2024, the Rabbinic Library of Izmir, located in a room of the Karatash Jewish Hospital was opened. With more than 1700 books printed between the 17th and 20th centuries, the library is a testimony of the community´s reputation of being one of the Sephardic world´s intellectual and religious centers. Rare books containing handwritten marginal notes of famous rabbis from Izmir are just one of the reasons that make this library unique. A Jewish educator from Philadelphia, Donna Dina Eliezer, tells the story of how she discovered the books in the old Hahamhane (Rabbinate) building and how she dedicated herself to helping salvage the books and form the Rabbinic Library of Izmir.

By Bessy ADUTBorn in Rockaway Beach, New York, Wendy White's palette and writings are strongly influenced by her early environment of living by the se...

By Bessy ADUTChaim was born in Los Angeles, CA and grew up in Israel. At age 22, Chaim moved back to the U.S. to be closer to family. He worked in Los...

By Bessy ADUTWendy Liebman took a class called "How to be a Stand-up Comedian" at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in 1985.  Since then ...

By Bessy ADUTAndy Danish is an LA-based voice actor and comedy writer. As a voice actor going on 15 years in the business, his career includes but is ...

By Bessy ADUTNoy is a former sports journalist, turned a multiple 6-figure coach and hypnotherapist based in New Zealand. He is married to Shay and to...

By Bessy ADUTIt saddens my heart that a few days ago I have received the news that Perry lost his life in a hit-and-run accident. It is so very strang...

By Bessy ADUTRichard Chassler, born in New York and raised between there and Los Angeles, grew up around show business; his uncle, Allen Swift, was th...

“One grandmother was hidden in the cellar of two Catholic women in Belarus for 630 days and nights. When she was liberated she had to relearn to walk, and to speak out loud. My other grandmother boarded a ship full of Polish orphans during the beginning of the war and went to Palestine, where she had to start her life over without her family, at age 9”

By Bessy ADUTJeff Weiss is an experienced corporate training specialist focusing on call center customer service and customer care. His learners work ...

By Bessy ADUTCurrently living in Los Angeles, California, Dani Menkin is the twice Academy-Award-Winning filmmaker of "39 Pounds of Love" and "Is That...

By Bessy ADUTRachel Tesler is an award-winning writer and producer with 10+ years working in film and television. She has developed her craft as a mul...