Arts
Ami Yares, Sagol 59 to perform in concert
As part of the Twin Cities’ largest Hanuka party, traveling folk musician Ami Yares and Sagol 59 (Khen Rotem), an...
Jews living in far-flung lands
Scattered Among the Nations: Photographs and Stories of the World’s Most Isolated Jewish Communities, by Bryan Schwartz, with Jay Sand...
Grateful Dead, from right to left
Ami Yares, a musician and teacher, will be featured, with Sagol 59, in a Dec. 12 concert at the St....
Rio Nido’s still swingin’
Members of a legendary Minneapolis combo will reunite for an evening of music at the Dakota By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Denizens...
A ‘16-piece dessert of a book’
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Perhaps Joseph Skibell’s unusual approach to life’s occurrences is related to his family’s unusual pronunciation of...
'The Chanukah Guest' returns to MJTC
Director Candace Barrett Birk looks forward to presenting the story to a new audience By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community...
Discovering Nasielsk
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film, by Glenn Kurtz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...
Shai Maestro’s eloquent 'Stories'
At the age of 19, pianist Shai Maestro began touring and recording with Israeli jazz bass virtuoso Avishai Cohen. In...
Kids, enter our Hanuka Cover Contest!
Attention, artistic youth: the American Jewish World's 24th annual Hanuka Cover Contest is in full swing. The winning artwork depicting...
‘Where there is humanity, there is comedy’
’70s sitcom king Norman Lear on making TV that breaks ground By CINDY SHER CHICAGO (JUF News via JTA) —...
