Skirball Cultural Center

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• SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER — The Skirball Cultural Center was established in Los Angeles in 1996 to promote Jewish heritage and American democratic ideals. Originally conceived in the 1980s as an offshoot of the Reform movement s Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Skirball Cultural Center — The Skirball Cultural Center is a facility in Los Angeles, California devoted to Jewish culture and heritage. The center features a museum with regularly changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary… …   Wikipedia

• Audrey Skirball-Kenis — (1915 ndash;June 19, 2002) was a noted American philanthropist.Early yearsAudrey Skirball Kenis was born Audrey Marks in Alabama in 1915. Although raised in New York, as the daughter of a Paris born mother, she spoke French at home until she… …   Wikipedia

• Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting — Infobox civilian attack title =Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting caption = location = Granada Hills and Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA date = August 10, 1999 time = 10:50 a.m. timezone = UTC 7 type = spree shooting fatalities …   Wikipedia

• LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES, city in S. California with approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants occupying 469 square miles of territory; the third most populous city in the U.S. and the largest city in area in the world. Los Angeles County is the home of some… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• MUSEUMS — In her entry on museums for the 1948 Universal Jewish Encyclopedia the eminent historian of Jewish art Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer (1885–1989), founding curator of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, cited the origin of collecting and exhibiting of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• HERSCHER, URI DAVID — (1941– ), U.S. rabbi, professor, founder and chief executive of the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Born in Tel Aviv to parents who fled Germany in the mid 1930s, Herscher s childhood home was shadowed by the annihilation of his extended …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Architecture and Civil Engineering — ▪ 2009 Introduction Architecture       For Notable Civil Engineering Projects in work or completed in 2008, see Table (Notable Civil Engineering Projects (in work or completed, 2008)).        Beijing was the centre of the world of architecture… …   Universalium

• Milk and Bookies — Milk + Bookies is a 501 (c) 3 non profit organization based in the United States. The organization s stated mission is two fold: 1) providing opportunities for children to experience giving back to their community and 2) literacy promotion in… …   Wikipedia

• Moshe Safdie — Born July 14, 1938 (1938 07 14) (age 73) Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine Na …   Wikipedia