Arts
It’s time to submit entries for the 2025 AJW Hanuka Cover Contest
Want to see YOUR artwork on the cover of the American Jewish World? It’s time to get out those markers!...
‘Purple Rain’ hits the stage in Minneapolis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR I’ll start with my Prince stories. In 1983, I was writing and doing political organizing around various...
Kfar Aza October 7 exhibition makes U.S. debut in St. Louis Park
(Editor's note: The exhibition, “Through Their Eyes: The Story of Kfar Azza on October 7, 2023," was on display through...
Asleep at the switch on Oct. 7
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Although Hamas is to blame for invading Israel Oct. 7, 2023, the authors of While Israel...
Ari Munzner in the cosmos
A blinding spark flashed within the concealed of the concealed, from the mystery of the Infinite, a cluster of vapor...
Mysterious Maria Lani, in words and pictures
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The Woman With Fifty Faces has several faces of its own. On its face, so to...
Children’s Theatre Company’s ‘Treasure Island’ features one Jewish actor as three pirates
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Did you know that one of history’s most famous pirates was Jewish? Yes, Jean Lafitte, hero of...
‘In here, life is beautiful’
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor On the Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, people are gay...
An artilleryman’s secret
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Going through husband Yefim Shulman’s things after his death in Donetsk, Ukraine, his wife Nina gets...
John Orenstein creates a musical for the Fringe
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN John Orenstein was one slick attorney for many years. He knew how to get what he wanted...
