Arts
Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with...
Daniel Kahn’s ‘Yiddish punk cabaret’
Publicity for The Butcher’s Share (Oriente Musik), the new album by Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird, notes that the ensemble...
MMAA finds new home in St. Paul’s Lowertown
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Like the wandering remnants of the Kingdom of Judah who finally found a home in Eretz Yisrael,...
Robert Mnookin: The big tent of Judaism
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being Jewish should be a matter of choice, not descent, says Robert Mnookin, who says the...
Alice Walker endorses book by anti-Semitic author
by SAM SOKOL (JTA) — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker has come under intense criticism after endorsing a book by...
A new Jewish Christmas tradition: Watching ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at your local movie theater
by TOM TUGEND LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Sick of eating Chinese food and taking in another modern blockbuster on Christmas,...
Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin mine aging for laughs in Chuck Lorre’s latest, ‘The Kominsky Method’
By CURT SCHLEIER (JTA) — The Kominsky Method is the wisest and saddest new comedy on television. That might be its...
Peter Kuper: Artist evokes Kafka’s weird view of reality
Many visitors to Prague follow the trail of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), a Jewish native of the picturesque city that now...
Jews and the Qur’an
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER So why should Jews want to read a book called God in the Qur'an? First among...
American Jewish World Hanuka Cover Contest Winner: Eliah Fink
The 27th annual AJW Hanuka Cover Contest, for students in grades 1-8, called on young artists in the community to...
