Arts

A drawing of a Rube Goldberg contraption. (Photos courtesy of Abrams Comic Arts) By DORIS RUBENSTEIN St. Paulite Geoff George’s...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When asked to review Mark Oppenheimer’s book about the killings at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue,...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER People in Ellen Feldman’s new novel, The Living and the Lost, are full of secrets. We...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Which Jewish musician has roots on the Iron Range and has a new recording coming out soon?...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Jewish-American novelist and “saloniste” Gertrude Stein is said to have invited only “interesting people” to her living...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The arrest and conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as Soviet spies was an enormous shanda...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Ellis Island tends to dominate thinking about Jews’ immigration to America. But there’s another America. Who...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Almost all Jews know of Anne Frank, and many know of Hannah Senesh, who bravely parachuted...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN David Ira Goldstein was the artistic director for Arizona Theatre Company (the largest in the state) for...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you’ve ever wondered what America would feel like to someone from another planet, A Beginner’s...