Arts
Scrap metal exhibit opens April 3
Peddlers to Processors: Scrap Stories from the Upper Midwest, an exhibit produced by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper...
Bet Shalom concert to benefit Sojourner Project
The Social Action Committee of Bet Shalom Congregation will present its 13th annual chamber music benefit concert 7:30 p.m. Saturday,...
Benny’s dream comes true
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor Growing up in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul — the...
‘Judaism does not demand belief’
Why Be Jewish? A Testament, by Edgar M. Bronfman, Twelve, 237 pages, $26 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER For people perplexed...
‘Imagine That’ sounds sublime
Drummer Daniel Freedman follows up his acclaimed 2012 album, Bamako by Bus, with Imagine That (Anzic Records), a vibrant collection...
In a land of immigrants
AJW Staff Report In the introduction to From Selfie to Groupie, by Jeff Bliumis and Alina Bliumis, who are also...
Sabes JCC stages ‘They Called Her Captain’
Maggie Bearmon Pistner remounts her one-woman show, which tells the story of her mother’s army service during World War II...
Israel’s great poet, Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is widely considered to be Israel’s greatest contemporary poet. The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Farrar, Straus and...
A colorful Jewish hero
Max Baer and the Star of David, by Jay Neugeboren, Mandel Vilar Press paperback, 206 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
Chicago’s legendary black newspaper
In 1991, Jewish journalist Ethan Michaeli was hired by The Chicago Defender, the newspaper of the Windy City’s black community....
