Tag: Mordecai Specktor

More than 5.6 million Israelis are eligible to vote in the upcoming elections on Jan. 22, aspects of which might ...

Omer Avital has established himself as a top bass player on the jazz scene, but also is bringing traditional Jewish ...

At the end of 2012, many news media outlets published or aired their year-in-review stories. This particular journalistic convention also ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When we last talked, in December 2010, Cathy Ladman was living in south Minneapolis. She had some ...

The day before the Jewish World went to press this week, the family of Noah Pozner buried their son and ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a St. Paul federal court hearing last Friday, on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit alleging ...

As we go to press this week, with a special edition celebrating the post-biblical, minor holiday of Hanuka, something is ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Andy Statman, a musician’s musician, who has played with everyone from Bob Dylan to Itzhak Perlman, returns ...

Israel is at war with Hamas, again. You can spend all day reading news reports and commentaries — and wind ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen reports that she was spared the calamitous effects of Hurricane Sandy. “We’re some ...