Acclaimed Toronto-based singer Sophie Milman will take the Dakota Jazz Club stage on June 3 By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When she was a young child in Israel, Sophie Milman would entertain her parents with a rendition of “Till There Was You,” the Meredith Wilson song from The Music Man. Her father especially enjoyed his seven-year-old daughter’s [...]

Israeli native Sam Kedem marries Jewish values with responsible farming By ROBIN DOROSHOW One of our family’s favorite destinations is the southeastern portion of Minnesota; the drive along the Mississippi River is beautiful all seasons of the year. My husband was working on a project in Winona over the course of the past year, so [...]

Local actor Ari Hoptman reprises the same role for the fourth time in Park Square Theatre’s first Neil Simon play By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor According to local actor Ari Hoptman, if you need that extra touch, you go to Ira Stone. “He’s obnoxious, he’s loud, he’s rude, he comes in late [...]

Golden Harvest, by Jan Tomasz Gross, with contributions by Irena Grudzińska Gross, Oxford, 135 pages, $16.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Poles living near death camps such as Treblinka found both pleasure and profit in the killing of Jews, a people living in Poland 800 years. A postwar photo in which peasants and militia appear to [...]

Biographers of Bob Dylan, one of this year’s 13 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, talk about how Judaism permeates his work By ROBERT GLUCK / JointMedia News Service Most rock stars are retired by 71, but not Bob Dylan. He’s touring, performing and later this spring receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian [...]

Fans of Israeli author Etgar Keret likely will be entertained by his new story collection, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, available in paperback from FSG Originals. The stories are mainly brief, two or three pages; they are replete with disturbing twists. For example, the title story has an author returning home to find a [...]