Three Latin American music stars — La Tigresa del Oriente and La Pequeña Wendy, both from Peru, and Delfín Hasta El Fín, from Ecuador — sing on “En Tus Tierras Bailaré (In Your Lands I’ll Dance).” The homage to “beuatiful Israel” has “effortlessly racked up nearly 4 million views and spawned countless tributes and parodies,” [...]

An Afternoon of Art in the Garden, a benefit for Rimon, will feature works of 10 local Jewish artists on July 18

By SHARON ZWEIGBAUM

“Let there be light.”
God’s mandate in Genesis has entered glassmaker Shoshana Englard’s creative spirit. Inspired as a child by her grandparents’ Bavarian cut crystal, the glass artist’s work evokes its [...]

Based on actual events, ‘Holy Rollers’ tells story of drug ring that used young Hasidim as traffickers
Director Kevin Asch dramatizes the cultural clash that ensues when members of Brooklyn’s Hasidic community link up with drug dealers to transport large quantities of ecstasy and money between New York and Amsterdam. The film opens Friday, June 18 at the [...]

Miryam Kabakov has edited a new anthology that explores the reconciliation of LBTQ women and Orthodoxy. She will launch the book, Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires (North Atlantic Books), 7 p.m. Thursday, June 10 at the St. Paul JCC, 1375 St. Paul Ave.
The book includes the first-person accounts of [...]

The Little Traitor, a coming-of-age allegory about a young boy and the birth of the State of Israel, will open on Friday, June 4 at the Edina Cinema, 3911 West 50th St.
The movie — starring Alfred Molina and Ido Port, with Theodore Bikel — is the story of a 10-year-old Jewish boy in Palestine on [...]

Harmonica ace Howard Levy will perform June 17 at the Dakota Jazz Club.
“He plays synagogue music… an original blend of jazz, Middle Eastern and cantorial styles that’s liberating and impeccable,” wrote Andrew Muchin. “Levy playing for your davening and dancing pleasure is like Benny Goodman leading the klezmer band at your nephew’s wedding. The music’s [...]

The American VOICE of the Soviet Jews collects, preserves memories of local Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union and their experiences during World War II

By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor

When Adolf Hitler attacked the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on June 22, 1941, without a declaration of war, the USSR’s [...]

Inaugural concert of the Twin Cities Jewish Chorale will take place June 6 at the Sabes JCC

By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor

Larry Gibson has always believed that Jewish involvement in music — either by composing or performing — was not an accident.
“We didn’t do sculpture and we didn’t do painting because of [...]

Cancer survivor Nancy Chakrin’s art show offers healing

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN

To look at the placid images painted by Minnetonka artist Nancy Chakrin, now on exhibit at Sholom Home West in St. Louis Park, you might not believe that they are an outgrowth of her experience with violence. This is not the kind of violence [...]

In his review of Ajami for the American Jewish World, San Francisco-based film critic Michael Fox called the film “a knockout. A crackling urban drama shot with unblinking realism and steeped in astringent Middle East irony, Ajami sinks its hooks in the first minute and never lets up.”
The film’s title is taken from the gritty [...]