Arts
'Stop the Re-Route': Last stand for Mother Earth
New documentary chronicles the urban effort to save trees and stop a Minneapolis highway project  By MORDECAI SPECKTOR  ...
Trespassing in Tsfat
Film examines feminism and sexuality against a backdrop of Jewish mysticism Reviewed by MICHAEL FOX Veteran Israeli director Avi Nesher is...
Local survivor recounts hellish time in Ahlem camp
Shoah documentary, Angel of Ahlem, will be screened March 8, as part of the Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival...
History of Great White Way illuminated in photo book
Israeli actor Chaim Topol has the role of Tevye this week, as the touring company of Fiddler on the Roof...
Life imitates art in story of bad scheduling
Sixty-Six is a funny and touching story of a Jewish boy’s star-crossed Bar Mitzva in London By CURT SCHLEIER When...
Debbie Friedman sings the Shacharit service in new CD
St. Paul native Debbie Friedman has put her stamp on Jewish music, with her melodies for Mi Shebeirach (the prayer...
Bearing witness to a soldier’s sacrifice
HBO producer Ross Katz initially resisted a story by a retired Marine, then felt called to bring it to the public...
Rutu Modan's new toons draw in the adult reader
In a follow-up to her captivating graphic novel Exit Wounds (10.31.08 AJW), Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan returns with Jamilti and...
Jewish film festival to kick off March 5
By LEORA MACCABEE From March 5-15, the Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival, a celebration of Jewish life, politics, culture,...
Tim Sparks, Tom Lieberman will reunite for Feb. 7 coffeehouse concert at Beth El
Guitar virtuoso Tim Sparks will perform tunes by klezmer legend Naftule Brandwein at the Feb. 7 show. By MORDECAI SPECKTOR...
