Arts

By MICHAEL FOX According to the old saw, “all politics is local.” To ultra-Orthodox widower Yaacov Cohen, it’s not just...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you’re fond of short, strange, sad stories, you’ll love Etgar Keret’s new book. The title...

By JORDANA LIPSITZ (JTA) — I met Iris before her first solo show in the green room at the Bootleg...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Having years earlier become a Swiss citizen, German-born Albert Einstein did not have to fight for...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Unfortunately, when private investigator Nils Shapiro takes a murder case, dead people keep accumulating. In Broken...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Jeremy Piven, an award-winning actor best known for his role as a high-powered talent agent on the...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Adam Ehrlich Sachs is possessed of a great imagination, a sense of the absurd and the...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Five years ago, a newspaper editor interviewing Rebecca Bender about her plans to preserve a rural...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Jewish participation continues to be strong this year in Art-A-Whirl, the annual art crawl hosted by the...

Keren Or (Ray of Light) is a creative arts contest for Minnesota's Jewish teens. The contest, now in its 15th...