Arts
Talmud Torah’s challenging future
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER One era’s innovative, effective, nationally praised project can lose appeal in another, as shown by the...
This Portuguese Jewish community couldn’t afford a rabbi. Now it made a $1 million movie coming to Amazon.
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — A decade ago, the tiny Jewish Community of Porto didn’t have enough money to hire a...
Attention, young Jewish artists
Jewish artists in grades 1-8 can enter the American Jewish World's 28th Annual Hanuka Cover Contest. The winning entry will appear...
Three Russian-born Jewish geniuses
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN About the only good thing to be said for Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement under...
He’s back to playing like Fred Hersch
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In his exemplary 2017 memoir, Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz, acclaimed...
A storied palace in Prague
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER World War I ended the power of European monarchs, but a final palace would yet arise...
Alex Borstein’s ‘Step out of line’ speech at the Emmys was a perfect display of Jewish pride
By JORDANA HORN SHORT HILLS, N.J. (JTA) — Whether you watched the Emmys on Sunday night or or not, chances...
An Ordway Original smash: ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’
Reviewed by MORDECAI SPECKTOR Dubbed an "Ordway Original," Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller , a musical revue...
Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival opens Sept. 14
A Soviet comic dealing with his insecurities and the KGB. The goalkeeper (and former German soldier) whose signing to a...
Michael Feinstein makes his Dakota debut
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In his 2012 book, The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs, Michael Feinstein writes:...
