Arts

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — If you love something but can't possess it, you write about it. This, the...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone last week from his home in Malibu, renowned musician Herb Alpert wished me a...

Nora Krug, who was raised in Karlsruhe, Germany, several decades after the Holocaust, has created an intriguing graphic memoir, Belonging:...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN What song is playwright Clifford Odets referring to in his 1935 drama Awake and Sing!? For most...

by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Minnesota has an odd taste for Frankenstein’s monster, the towering revived corpse from Mary...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you like clever short stories about unhappy, frustrated or lonely people, you'll love Notes from...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER You have to be pretty special for chef Wolfgang Puck to stop in to make your...

by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Here it is, just a few days before Rosh Hashana, and I wound up...

For his new album, Ask for Chaos (Hexophonic Music/Motéma), jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman, an Israeli native living in New York City...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Having been intimately involved in a one-woman play last year (Deborah Yarchun’s A Pickle starring the amazing Angela...