Arts
An eternal light from the darkness of the Holocaust
A new Ner Tamid by Claude Riedel transforms rusted barbed wire once meant to hold Jewish people captive By RUTH...
'The Crucible': Witch hunts, then and now
The Guthrie’s Joe Dowling will direct Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, an allegory of America’s hysteria about Communism in the 1950s...
Sol Gabetta’s lovely 'Prayer'
On her new album, Prayer (Sony Classical), Argentine star cellist Sol Gabetta plays a selection of music inspired by Jewish...
MJTC’s 'Jericho' addresses 9/11 tragedy
The final show of MJTC’s 2014-15 season deals with grief, family and community By DORIS RUBENSTEIN A universal experience for...
Peace on the plateau
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Books and an acclaimed documentary film have made the French Huguenot village of Le Chambon and...
Divorce Israeli-style goes on trial in 'Gett'
Gett marks the third and final chapter of a trilogy from filmmaker siblings Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz By MICHAEL FOX...
'Woman in Gold' opens today in Minneapolis
Woman in Gold is the true story of an elderly Jewish woman named Maria Altmann (played by Helen Mirren), who...
When revolution was in the air
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A playful trailer for Al Milgrom’s new film, The Dinkytown Uprising, begins with a dramatic trumpet fanfare...
Jon Adam Ross: 'This brilliant light’
Theater artist Jon Adam Ross is creating a play inspired by Abraham using the stories of Twin Cities Jews By...
Lincoln’s ‘valued friends’
Lincoln and the Jews: A History, by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, St. Martins, 272 pages, $40 Reviewed by...
