{"id":6076,"date":"2012-08-03T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2012-08-02T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T02:58:36","slug":"friday-news-chum-zombies-cant-dance-the-hora-and-they-wont-take-a-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6076","title":{"rendered":"Friday News Chum: Zombies Can&#8217;t Dance the Hora, and They Won&#8217;t Take a Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5009\" title=\"userpic=observations\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicobservations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Well, it&#8217;s Friday, and you know what that means: time to clear out the links of interesting news chum that didn&#8217;t fit into a themed post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Facts About Money<\/strong>. From Forbes: <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/12\/6-fascinating-facts-about-cash\/?iid=HP_LN\" target=\"_blank\">6 Interesting Facts about Money<\/a>. One thing the article talks about is the fact that checks may die before cash. I&#8221;m one of those folks that still use checks &#8212; I print them on Sunday, mail on Monday. Am I the only one left?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oh, The Hora!<\/strong> The Wall Street Journal has an article that posits the death of something other than money: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304388004577533092169060420.html\" target=\"_blank\">The dancing of <em>Hava Nagila<\/em> at weddings and other simchas<\/a>. The last wedding I attended was a year ago (Happy Anniversary, Fanny!), and I can&#8217;t recall what music they did for the hora. Do you still hear Hava Nagila?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be True to Your Shul<\/strong>. When I was growing up, I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbtla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilshire Blvd Temple<\/a>. Being one of the A\/V runners, I spent time in the bowels of the building, under Piness, where all the A\/V was stored. Although I&#8217;m no longer a member, the congregation still has a soft spot in my heart, which is why I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/cover_story\/article\/wilshire_boulevard_temple_rennovation_offers_renewed_history_20120801\/#When:16:59:16Z\" target=\"_blank\">this long article from the Jewish Journal on the renovation of the sanctuary, and the eventual future plans<\/a>, so interesting. I particularly like how Rabbi Leder got funding for the new work:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Before starting on any part of this project, the synagogue\u2019s board of trustees \u2014 which for years had been more focused on expanding its highly successful Westside campus \u2014 had to be convinced of the need. Though this was the place from which it drew its name and where the whole congregation came together for the holiest holiday services, the huge investment needed wasn\u2019t a given. They considered selling the property, a concept Leder said he couldn\u2019t stand for. \u201cIt would have become a Korean church,\u201d he said. So to make the picture real, he\u2019d take potential funders out around the immediate neighborhood to illustrate his point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019d go to Fourth [Street] and New Hampshire [Avenue], and we\u2019d get out across the street from a beautiful old synagogue that was Sinai Temple, and there\u2019s a gigantic cross on the front of it, just above the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, and I\u2019d just look at people, and I\u2019d say: \u2018That\u2019s the other alternative; it\u2019s very disturbing.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detroit: Where the Men are&#8230; Dead?<\/strong> A few weeks back, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-detroit-zombie-park-20120706,0,561181.story\" target=\"_blank\">the enterprising fellow who wants to build a zombie amusement park in abandoned areas of Detroit<\/a>. Wonder where the zombies will come from? Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Vacant-Detroit-becomes-dumping-ground-for-the-dead-3757632.php\" target=\"_blank\">vacant areas of Detroit have become dumping grounds for dead bodies<\/a>. I shudder what I will read next. Then again, I&#8217;m in Los Angeles, so I&#8217;ll probably read about a producer making a horror film about dead bodies in a zombie park in Detroit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theatre of Interest. <\/strong> Some upcoming theatre notes for me about shows I plan to ticket. Building on the Detroit theme, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-silence-of--lambs-spoof-20120802,0,822935.story\" target=\"_blank\">Silence of the Lambs: The Musical<\/a>. There&#8217;s also going to be a local production of <a href=\"http:\/\/musicalsinla.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/doma-theatre-company-goes-retro-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">Xanadu: The Musical<\/a>. Lastly, Celebration Theatre will be doing a new musical called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/168681-New-Musical-Justin-Love-Will-Make-World-Premiere-in-Los-Angeles-Casting-Announced\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Love<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Friday, and you know what that means: time to clear out the links of interesting news chum that didn&#8217;t fit into a themed post: Facts About Money. From Forbes: 6 Interesting Facts about Money. One thing the article talks about is the fact that checks may die before cash. I&#8221;m one of those <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6076\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}