Set a place for Andrew Zimmern at the dinner table
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Since I started covering the arts for the American Jewish World in 2007, I thought I’d touched ...
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Fred Amram, educator and upstander, dies at 89
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor If Fred Amram could leave the world with one message, it would be this: ...
1,000 Jewish groups received at least $500 million in government loans. Some laid off staff anyway.
By BEN SALES (JTA) — More than 1,000 Jewish organizations received federal coronavirus relief loans totaling approximately $540 million to ...
Tour Jewish art museums without leaving your home
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN For regular museum patrons, social distancing and sheltering-in-place can leave us itching to get out and stroll ...
Audiences loved ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in Yiddish, but Yiddish itself still gets no love
By ROKHL KAFRISSEN NEW YORK (JTA) — Fidler afn Dakh, the Yiddish adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, closed on ...
Michael Feinstein makes his Dakota debut
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In his 2012 book, The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs, Michael Feinstein writes: ...
Eli Valley: Cartoons for the crisis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a September 2017 appearance on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show, cartoonist Eli Valley said, regarding the aim ...
A storyteller all of his life
Charles Brin went from roles on Broadway and in the movies to co-founding the first local community radio station By ...
A year later, remembering a parent’s last days
Saying goodbye to Grapo was a painful end for those who loved him By LAURIE KRAMER My father — called ...
HaZamir teen choir to begin new season
The Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter of HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir, conducted by Cantor Audrey Abrams, will begin its ...
