Arts
The Netanyahu Years: Apocalyptic instincts
The Netanyahu Years by Ben Caspit, translated by Ora Cummings, Thomas Dunne, 493 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Whether...
Norman: A New York hustler’s rise and tragic fall
Richard Gere plays the eponymous character in Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,...
Textile Center exhibition translates haiku
Sandra Brick and Michael Paul Amram have combined for an exhibition at the Textile Center, 3000 University Ave. SE, Minneapolis....
Music leads the way to romance
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Regarding the concept behind his new album, Notes from New York (Impulse!), pianist Bill Charlap mentions that...
Theater in the ghetto
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Theresienstadt (Terezin, in Czech) ghetto was a prison for about 150,000 Jews, between 1941 and 1945,...
Tamar Eisenman in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Tamar Eisenman has been going to jazz shows around New York City. The Israeli singer-songwriter has visited...
When Disraeli led Britain
Disraeli: The Novel Politician, by David Cesarani, Yale, 304 pages, $25 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If ever a Jew was...
Avishai Cohen’s evocative 'Silence'
Trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen’s new album, Into the Silence (ECM), is dedicated to the memory of his father, who...
Scrap stories
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor “The Jew who visits the farmer and tries to buy the old...
MJTC gives local premiere to ‘Bad Jews’
Director Hayley Finn says the play ‘demands that the audience get into the minds and hearts of the characters so...
