Arts
Documentary spans the globe asking, 'What is God?'
Filmmaker Peter Rodger shleps his camera to exotic locales —Â from the American Southwest to the Himalayas —Â and asks folks, "What...
'Ida's Story' portrays a child's survival in Ukraine, and makes larger point about resisting genocide
By CRYSTAL ERICKSON TC Daily Planet A documentary 10 years in the making, Ida's Story had its big-screen debut at North Minneapolis's...
Ben Sidran’s Dylan tunes are arranged differently
Madison, Wisc.-based jazz pianist and composer Ben Sidran has recorded an album of Dylan covers. Dylan Different (Nardis Music) includes...
A treasury of Judaism and sports
Baseballs, Basketballs and Matzah Balls, by Mitchell Smith, Ph.D., AuthorHouse, 276 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by RABBI NORMAN M. COHEN If...
Vampires, Jews and the blood libel
The pop-culture mania for vampire stories meets the Holocaust in Sarah Jane Stratford’s debut novel, The Midnight Guardian, according to Marc Tracy's...
'The Messenger' — Israeli director dramatizes heartbreak of fallen soldiers' families
Israeli director Oren Moverman, in his directorial debut, elicits powerful, affecting performances from the stars of The Messenger, a film...
Kids, enter the 18th annual AJW Hanuka Cover Contest!
If you're a young artist in grades 1-8 (or a parent or grandparent of a budding artist), check out the...
Dylan trivia winners announced!
Congratulations to Lois Dobrin and Danny Hechter! Both correctly answered our Bob Dylan trivia question and will win copies of...
Orthodox and born to dance
Drawing on African and African-American cultures, 'The Good Dance' makes room for a little Jewish dancer Anna Schon explodes with...
When type became bullets
Robyn Stoller Awend’s exhibition of letterpress prints is inspired by renowned Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A Yiddish...
