Arts
Or Emet member pens book, visits 'Today'
Richard Logan, a member of Congregation Or Emet and retired professor of human development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay,...
Carole King: ‘Essential’ singer and songwriter
The works of legendary singer and songwriter Carole King are together in a new two-CD set. The Essential Carole King (Ode/Epic/Legacy)...
MJTC’s 'Women’s Minyan' tackles taboo topic
Naomi Ragen’s play about domestic abuse in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox precincts deserves a local audience By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Women in the Twin...
Ajami: A Middle East without mercy
By MICHAEL FOX Even by the high standards set by Israeli films in the last few years, Ajami is a knockout....
‘Oy vey’ is Yiddish for ‘uff-da’
Songwriter Elisa Korenne brings the lost world of immigrant Jews back to rural Minnesota By RABBI JONATHAN PERLMAN When New...
Mpls.-St. Paul International Film Festival rolls on with a very Jewish family drama from Mexico
In Nora's Will (Cinco dias sin Nora), a family comes together to bury a mother and ex-wife who, after many...
Gay men’s chorus benefit to feature Jewish comedian
“Mental: An Evening of Homo-Neurotic Comedy,” featuring Jewish comedian and author Eddie Sarfaty, and benefiting the Twin Cities Gay Men’s...
Mpls. Jewish Film Festival concludes with 'Bewoket,' a film about a Jewish American healer in Ethiopia
Dr. Rick Hodes (left) was joined by Taka Larson, a survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, on Sunday at the...
‘Max Manus,’ a story of the Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation will open the 28th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival opens tonight at 7 p.m. with Max Manus, a Norwegian film about the resistance...
A Nazi-era filmmaker and an American gonif
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When one thinks of the Nazis and film, the name Leni Riefenstahl might come to mind. But...
