Arts
The surprise of growing old
Being Esther: A Novel, by Miriam Karmel, Milkweed Editions, 187 pages, $22 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER A bittersweet joy, the...
Documentary chronicles photograher Bert Stern's illustrious career
Photographer Bert Stern was a seminal figure in the "Golden Age of Advertising." Starting as a mail room boy at...
Documentary blows a kiss to Roth at 80
The award-winning American author aims to polish his legacy, while sidestepping a critical examination of his work By MICHAEL FOX...
The story of one family’s underground survival
No Place on Earth chronicles the remarkable story of the Stermer family and how they survived the Holocaust by hiding...
Maccabeats to perform May 5
The Yeshiva University a capella group will make its first appearance in Minnesota By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News...
A play of secrets, faith and long-lost love
MJTC’s Handle with Care is like three plays in one Reviewed by DORIS RUBENSTEIN Jason Odell Williams’ play Handle with...
‘Hank Greenberg’ DVD knocks it out of the park
Jews in America had a wonderful hero in the 1930s: Detroit Tigers slugger Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg. Director Aviva Kempner has...
Reliving a Holocaust experience
Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss, W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95...
'The Children’s Hour' opens April 20 at the Sabes JCC
The Sabes JCC will present The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman, directed by Anya Kremenetsky, from April 20-28 at the...
Real stories from the Shoah
Play based on oral histories of Minnesota Holocaust survivors to be staged at Mount Zion Temple By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN...
