Arts
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...
Palestine’s master builders
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, by Adina Hoffman, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 352 pages, $28...
Jewish Book Series to feature musician Steve Katz
Guitarist Steve Katz, a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears, will offer an exclusive performance...
A chat with a rock star
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A theme running through many music biz memoirs is internecine rivalry. Put another way, band members occasionally...
Comedian Robert Klein can’t stop his leg
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor On a Season Four episode of the Web series Comedians in Cars...
Nuances of Israeli life
The Best Place on Earth: Stories, by Ayelet Tsabari, Random House, 272 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s easy...
Appelfeld writes for young readers
Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Transnistria, at the age of...
