Arts
Rupert Thomson: If it’s not true, it should be
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Few authors could make the lives of two 20th century French women lovers as spellbinding as...
An illustrated history of the Nazi reign
The cover photo of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich (Oxford University Press) depicts Hitler on his “art trip”...
Six13 provides more than novelty
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Like many musical groups, Jewish a cappella group Six13 has a lot of videos...
Yossi Klein Halevi: Seeking to find spiritual kinship
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s difficult to review a book so insightful, sensitive and sensible that you want to quote...
The sisters Berlovitz
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Sisters Sonya and Barbra Berlovitz have been important parts of the Twin Cities theatre and arts scene...
Philip Roth, enfant terrible turned peerless chronicler of American Jewish life, dies
JTA Staff Report (JTA) — Philip Roth, whose notorious novels about the sex drives of American men gave way to...
Why Haim means so much to young Jewish women
By GABE FRIEDMAN NEW YORK (JTA) — Zoe Plotsky and 10 friends recently came together for a casual Shabbat dinner...
Film: ‘Bye Bye Germany’
LIVING BY THEIR WITS — Army investigator Sara Simon (Antje Traue) interrogates David Bermann (Moritz Bleibtreu), a Holocaust survivor living...
David Hirshberg: Secular Jews after WWII
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Joel, one year retired from 47 years of telling stories five nights a week over a...
‘In Between’: Palestinian women search for balance
In Between, director Maysaloun Hamoud's debut feature film, explores the lives of three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv. Laila...
