Jewish Forum: THE KING OF COMEDY: REINER IS WIRED FOR HIS STARRING ROLE ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT THAT HAS CALLED HIM FOR YEARS
IF THE GUINNESS people kept records of such things, Carl Reiner would be listed under Most Hyphenated Man in Show Business.Writer-director-producer-actor-author. And lecturer. The king of comedy appears in his newest role tonight when he kicks off the Tidewater Jewish Forum's 1995-96 season at the Pavilion Theater in Virginia Beach.But at the moment, Reiner is discussing wiring. Just before he was due on the phone for an interview, one of the living room lamps in his...
Jewish Forum: HOTLINE PROVIDES OUTLET FOR POLES DISCOVERING THEIR JEWISH HERITAGE
WARSAW, Poland -- Many Polish Jews who stayed on in their homeland after surviving the horrors of the Nazi occupation abandoned their religion. But now some are trying to reconnect to their Jewishness and bring their past into the open."Their children are learning only now," says Stanislaw Krajewski, a 47-year-old mathematician and philosopher who runs the Jewish Forum in Warsaw. "But they are no longer children, so there is a lot of stress."...
Jewish Forum: RELIGION FORUM SETS MEETING FOR CHRISTIANS, JEWS
To help advance relations between Christians and Jews, "especially on the local level and in people's daily lives," the Christian-Jewish Forum will hold its first public meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gasson Hall, Boston College. The forum is partly a followup to the Seventh National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations, held a year ago in Boston. Organizers said the meeting is open to individuals, as well as religious or organizational...
Jewish Forum: DIGEST
BOCA RATON Jewish forum to examine films, Sun-Sentinel series South Florida Sun-Sentinel staffers Tim Collie and Mike Stocker will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how they created their recent four-part series on Judaism at 9 p.m. Dec. 3 at Mizner Park Cinemas.They will speak at Jewish Education Commission of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County's fourth annual "Reflections in Broken Glass: A Commemoration of Kristallnacht." The Dec. 3...
Jewish Forum: POLES CALLING HOT LINE TO SORT OUT JEWISHNESS
COUNSELORS HELP PEOPLE DEAL WITH MURKY ROOTS IN LAND WHERE ANTISEMITISM LINGERS
The phone in the one-room office in a downtown building begins to ring every Thursday just as the sun dips into the soft gray horizon. The anonymous callers have one secret to tell. They think they may be Jewish.Five decades after Nazi hatred tore Europe apart and eight years after democracy broke the bonds of communism, generations of Poles are entering a new age of discovery. Some face a puzzle of heritage as they piece together newly opened records with vague childhood memories. Others,...