Arts
A storied palace in Prague
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER World War I ended the power of European monarchs, but a final palace would yet arise...
Alex Borstein’s ‘Step out of line’ speech at the Emmys was a perfect display of Jewish pride
By JORDANA HORN SHORT HILLS, N.J. (JTA) — Whether you watched the Emmys on Sunday night or or not, chances...
An Ordway Original smash: ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’
Reviewed by MORDECAI SPECKTOR Dubbed an "Ordway Original," Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller , a musical revue...
Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival opens Sept. 14
A Soviet comic dealing with his insecurities and the KGB. The goalkeeper (and former German soldier) whose signing to a...
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:...
Birth of Shas party recounted with humor, heart in ‘The Unorthodox’
By MICHAEL FOX According to the old saw, “all politics is local.” To ultra-Orthodox widower Yaacov Cohen, it’s not just...
Etgar Keret embraces the weird
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you’re fond of short, strange, sad stories, you’ll love Etgar Keret’s new book. The title...
Meet Iris, the Jewish Icelandic singer with the voice of an actual angel
By JORDANA LIPSITZ (JTA) — I met Iris before her first solo show in the green room at the Bootleg...
Briton proved Einstein’s theory
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Having years earlier become a Swiss citizen, German-born Albert Einstein did not have to fight for...
Murder mystery set in Minneapolis
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Unfortunately, when private investigator Nils Shapiro takes a murder case, dead people keep accumulating. In Broken...
