Arts
Poet Jane Yolen reflects on humanity’s nadir
Reviewed by SHEILA WILENSKY Jane Yolen is a creative and prolific author of more than 400 books. As a former...
Accordion virtuoso Mark Stillman’s long and winding road
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN The accordion may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the musical instrument world – it gets no respect...
‘The French Dispatch’ is Wes Anderson’s most Jewish film yet
By GABE FRIEDMAN (JTA) — Jewishness has been at the fringes of several of Wes Anderson’s movies, but the famed director...
Black and Jewish Americans unite to talk about fighting antisemitism and all that jazz
By LARRY LUXNER In the late 1930s, Jewish clarinetist and jazz bandleader Benny Goodman, known as the King of Swing,...
Hey, Kids: The 2021 AJW Hanuka Cover Contest is accepting entries!
The 30th Annual AJW Hanuka Cover Contest We’re looking for colorful drawings by budding artists to feature on the cover...
Rube Goldberg and his amazing contraptions
A drawing of a Rube Goldberg contraption. (Photos courtesy of Abrams Comic Arts) By DORIS RUBENSTEIN St. Paulite Geoff George’s...
Mass murder at the shul in Squirrel Hill
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When asked to review Mark Oppenheimer’s book about the killings at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue,...
Millie returns to Germany after the war
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER People in Ellen Feldman’s new novel, The Living and the Lost, are full of secrets. We...
Dan Israel sticks close to his Minnesota home
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Which Jewish musician has roots on the Iron Range and has a new recording coming out soon?...
Art in the atelier
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Jewish-American novelist and “saloniste” Gertrude Stein is said to have invited only “interesting people” to her living...
