A Shoah memoir of courage, perseverance
Sky Tinged Red, by Isaia Eiger, translated by Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, Beaver’s Pond Press, 415 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
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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 ...
Max Raabe’s gonna party like it’s 1929
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Singer Max Raabe stands erect before the microphone, garbed in a tuxedo and tails with his blonde ...
German lawmakers propose ban on infant circumcision
BERLIN (JTA) — Some 50 lawmakers in Germany have signed on to a proposal that would bar ritual circumcision for ...
Ben Sidran ticket winner announced!
Ben Sidran The AJW congratulates Carol Lichterman, who won two tickets to see Ben Sidran's show, "Jews, Music and the ...
Famous Jews in American music — from Irving Berlin to Matisyahu
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to imagine American popular song without the contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists. Names like ...
German court mulls charges against rabbi for performing circumcisions
In May, a German court found that non-medical circumcision of a minor is a criminal act BERLIN (JTA) — A ...
AJW celebrates milestone anniversary on July 20
The American Jewish World will publish a Centennial Special Edition on July 20. There is still time to reserve an ...
Darchei Noam breaks ground for new shul
Judy Shapiro, president of Congregation Darchei Noam, read a poem at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new synagogue. (Photo: Mordecai ...
Remembering Israel, before 1948
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Haifa-born Hadara Lazar calls Britain’s Palestine Mandate a period of great expectations, “central to the Israeli ...
