Arts
Reunion long overdue for two ‘Ritchie Boys’
Dr. Guy Stern and St. Paul’s Walter Schwarz will be reunited after 65 years for local screening of The Ritchie...
Critic: ‘A Serious Man’ seriously underachieves in Jewish authenticity, box office receipts
Writing in Haaretz, Uzi Silber says that the new Coen brothers film is tone deaf in the Jewish department, and...
MIA acquires 'Eons of Exodus,' a new seder plate by California artist
The work of California-based artist Harriete Estel Berman features feminist, environmental and religious themes, often in the same piece. This...
In the beginning were Hebrew letters
Joe Vass employs the letters of the Hebrew alphabet for his new musical show at the St. Paul JCC By...
A look at bygone schmatta business
HBO film about New York’s garment district premieres Oct. 19 By CURT SCHLEIER Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags Again...
Neal Karlen pounces on the Coen brothers, and they have a friendly chat
Local journalist and author Neal Karlen writes in the Washinton Post about the mysteriously fertile ground of St. Louis Park...
As American as Moses
(Editor's note: Many AJW readers were surprised to see Ruth F. Brin's book review on the front page of the...
A dance to longing
Stuart Pimsler conceived and directed, with Suzanne Costello, "Tales from the Book of Longing." (Photo: V. Paul Virtucio) Stuart Pimsler...
'Punching the Clown' mines folksingers' misfortune and misadventures for laughs
Henry Phillips walks onstage in a scene from Gregori Viens new film "Punching the Clown." (Photo: Viens Films, LLC) In...
Film to highlight two of the Righteous Among the Nations
Journey to Freedom will be screened on Oct. 9 Until 2006, only one American, Varian Fry, had ever been named...
