Arts
Those madcap Marx Brothers onstage
The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers’ first film, originated on the Broadway stage, and now returns to the Guthrie stage By...
Just how Jewish is Carole King?
King’s life and career — and her Jewish influences — are brought to the stage in a new musical, presented...
An invitation to visit Keret World
In the title story of Israeli author Etgar Keret’s newly rereleased collection, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God...
Death of the peace process
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, by Dan Ephron, Norton, 336 pages, $27.95...
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...
