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...
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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...
Anti-hate summit in Pittsburgh uses Tree of Life shooting as warning to all
By DAVID RULLO and ADAM REINHERZ (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Standing before a crowd of several hundred, Pittsburgh resident Michele...
‘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,...