The Hebrew word Aliyah means “ascent,” but it can also refer to immigrating to Israel. Filmmaker Rebecca Shore directed the short documentary “Mekonen: The Journey of an African Jew” about African-Israeli man Mekonen Abebe to highlight Israel’s diversity. Read more...
Photo: Café Shahor Hazak’s song “Ihiye Beseder” is featured in filmmaker Rebecca Shore’s short documentary “Mekonen: The Journey of an African Jew.” (JerusalemU)
Seven digital humanities students found 759 entertainment industry professionals involved in early silent race films and compiled them into a centralized database for the first time. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Marika Cifor helped found a database website for African American silent race films from 1909 to 1930. The database includes relational data and is accessible to the public. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
The events of the 2016 election were so outlandish that they hardly needed satire. However, “Saturday Night Live” still delivered some incisively hilarious election coverage. Larry David frequently appeared on “SNL” as Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Read more...
Photo: Kate McKinnon performed as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on “SNL” during the 2016 election cycle, including the “Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump Cold Open” sketch. (Courtesy of Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)
Alan Leve counted the bumper stickers for presidential candidates Franklin Roosevelt and Alfred Landon while he was a child growing up in Boyle Heights in the 1930s. Read more...
Photo: Donor Alan D. Leve described his childhood in Boyle Heights prior to the opening of the exhibition “From Brooklyn Avenue to Cesar Chavez: Jewish Histories in Multiethnic Boyle Heights,” which is open through Wednesday in Royce Hall 306. (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Taiwanese television stations in the 1990s broadcasted Falun Dafa persecutions in Tiananmen Square in China, where the meditation practice is shunned. First-grader Joyce Kuo, a practitioner of the meditation, was worried while watching the images on television in her home in Taiwan because she knew her family could receive negative attention. Read more...
Photo: Students in UCLA’s Falun Dafa club practice qigong meditation, which is banned in China. The club’s new exhibit, “The Art of Truthfulness,” plans to challenge negative stigmas surrounding the practice. (Burcu Turkay/Daily Bruin)
Mia Lin Pan didn’t know how to cook before she came to America. About four years after leaving China to attend UCLA, she opened her first restaurant, L Kitchen, which will have its grand opening in Westwood on Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Mia Lin Pan will open her own restaurant, L Kitchen, in Westwood on Wednesday after cooking for friends’ events and helping another restaurant develop its taste. (Erin Gong/Daily Bruin)
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington has played alongside rappers like Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar, but his early education lies in jazz. As a second-year student at UCLA, Washington played saxophone on Snoop Dogg’s tour. Read more...
Photo: 2004 ethnomusicology alumnus and jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington released his three-volume album “The Epic” in May. He has performed alongside Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar, and he most recently took the stage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday night. (Courtesy of Jason Sneed)
