Arts
German women weren’t just cooking and cleaning
Exploring another wretched corner of World War II history, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton Mifflin...
Sabes JCC to host Yiddish festivities
Appearance by Yiddish Book Center founder Aaron Lansky on Sunday evening highlights festivities By SHIRA MASHA When people hear the...
Two October events in Center for Jewish Studies lecture series
Two events in the Center for Jewish Studies Community Lecture Series will be held in October. On Wednesday, Oct. 9,...
‘Inequality for All’ argues on behalf of the middle class
Inequality for All, a film by Jacob Kornbluth, will open in Minneapolis on Oct. 4 at the Uptown Theater. The...
When jokers were wild in the Catskills
When Comedy Went to School, featuring comedians Jackie Mason, Jerry Lewis and Jerry Stiller, will open Sept. 27 at the...
Celebrating Bob Fass and free expression
Described by Variety as “an icon of free-speech radio,” Jewish radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the...
The writing is on the wall
Adam Heffez, who has written a book about graffiti in Israel and the West Bank, will kick off Culture Blvd...
Judy Gold is her usual pleasant self
At six-foot-three, she towers above all of the other Jewish lesbian comics By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Perhaps you’ve noticed that there...
People of the Book will dig 'The Book of Schmaltz'
Lavishly illustrated with mouth-watering photos of food, Michael Ruhlman’s The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song to a Forgotten Fat (Little,...
Delving into the Nazi psyche
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and a Fatal Meeting of the Minds at the...
