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Thursday August 30, 2007

Shorts: Arts

Larry King to appear on Chabad’s telethon

Broadcaster Larry King will join the celebrity lineup for Chabad’s annual “To Life” telethon. Now celebrating 50 years as a broadcast journalist, the two-time Peabody Award-winner is seen nightly as host of CNN’s “Larry King Live.” The event airs live from Los Angeles on Sept. 9.

Other guests scheduled to appear on the telethon include actor Elliott Gould, actress/singer Mare Winningham, comedian Shelley Berman and radio commentator Dennis Prager. Last year’s telethon generated more than $6 million for Chabad’s charitable programs.

The Chabad “To Life” telethon airs 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 on KTSF, channel 26.

JCCSF joins forces with KALW to broadcast lecture series

Guest lecturers appearing at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco will enjoy even wider audiences as KALW, 91.7 FM, will begin broadcasting a string of those JCC lectures. The Monday evening series is called “Binah: Creative Voices from the JCCSF.”

In the weeks ahead, guest lecturers include Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, novelist Martin Amis, memoirist Ishmael Beah, Jewish American novelist Nathan Englander and Israeli novelist Etgar Keret.

For more information, call JCCSF at (415) 292-1200 or go online to www.jccsf.org.

Israeli author is finalist for fiction prize

Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret is a finalist for the richest prize in short fiction writing.

Keret is among the six finalists for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize for his collection “Missing Kissinger.” The prize is $47,500. In May, Keret won the Camera D’Or prize as the best director at the Cannes film festival for “Meduzot” (“Jellyfish”), a film about three women in Tel Aviv, which he made with writer Shira Geffen.

The other O’Connor finalists include writers from Ireland, Great Britain, the United States, New Zealand and Iceland. The first two winners were Chinese author Liyun Li in 2005 and Japan’s Haruki Marukami in 2006. The winner will be announced at the end of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland, on Sept. 23. — jta

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