Arts
Musical journeys evoked on 'Homes'
Israeli jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman, who left the Jewish state for New York City, follows up his 2013 album, This...
MJTC stages Englander’s ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’
Playwright Nathan Englander is the first to recite a theatrical kaddish for the Yiddish poets murdered by Stalin in 1952...
U.S. presidents and Israel
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, by Dennis Ross, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 474 pages, $30...
TAMID to present Cantor Jack Mendelson
World-renowned cantor and storyteller Jack Mendelson has a lot of anecdotes about his childhood and teenage years that will delight,...
Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival opens Oct. 22
The Sabes JCC and the St. Paul JCC have announced the film line-up of the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival,...
‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ offers a nuanced view
Playwright and actor Aaron Davidman portrays himself and 17 other characters in one-man show about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict By MORDECAI...
Kushner’s uplifting message
Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned about Life, by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Knopf, 171 pages, $23.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
Climate change poses threat of genocide
Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale and the author of Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, has written another...
Klezmatics to perform Oct. 8
The Minnesota Orchestra will welcome the Klezmatics — the Grammy Award-winning superstars of klezmer — 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8...
The Klezmatics will play Orchestra Hall
Trumpeter and group co-founder Frank London talks with the Jewish World By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Klezmatics concert in Minneapolis...
