A lesson from Cairo
As this edition of the American Jewish World goes to press, it seems like there is an inordinate amount of ...
Tag: Mordecai Specktor
Socalled rocks a beloved Yiddish melody, with help from Theodore Bikel
Socalled (a.k.a. Josh Dolgin), the mixmaster from Montreal, has created an amazing music video for "(Rock The) Belz," from the ...
Mainstream press reports tiff over Rabbi Manis Friedman's views on fighting war the 'Jewish way'
A storm of controversy is swirling around Rabbi Manis Friedman, the Lubavitcher rabbi from St. Paul, who is now backpedaling ...
Rabbi Manis Friedman's contribution to Moment magazine sets off a controversy in the blogosphere
A reporter from the Forward newspaper in New York City called yesterday with some questions about a short piece of ...
Celebrating Kushner: 'The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide' and 'Tiny Kushner'
The Marcantonios explain it all, and more  The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide exhibits playwright Tony Kushner’s wide-ranging interest in everything By MORDECAI ...
Editorial: Manufacturing crimes
At first glance, it looked like a case of astute police work. Four ex-convicts, three of them recent jailhouse converts ...
Heavy metal menschen
When two Jewish teens from Toronto vowed to rock on forever in 1973, they forged the musical legacy of Anvil By MORDECAI ...
When journalism became infotainment
As part of the Guthrie Theater’s “Global Voices” series on Monday night, Frank Rich, columnist and former theater critic for the ...
In concert: Leonard Cohen turns up the graciousness
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR You don’t know me from the wind / you never will, you never did I’m the little ...
Daughters of radical lawyer William Kunstler create compelling documentary of a singular advocate
Involvement with the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s led William Kunstler from a conventional law career and suburban ...
