Arts
Investigating Nazi-looted art
Israeli art expert Yehudit Shendar returns to Minnesota in April to talk about her work on a task force investigating...
Anat Cohen’s post-Passover show
The Israeli clarinetist’s new album features both jazz and the captivating sounds of Brazilian choro By MORDECAI SPECKTOR After Jewish...
'Deli Man' opens Friday at Edina Cinema
Deli Man, a documentary film produced and directed by Erik Greenberg Anjou — the third work in his trilogy about...
A free speech activist’s tragedy
The sad tale of a programming prodigy and free speech activist is told in the critically acclaimed documentary, The Internet’s...
Janis Ian is still standing and singing
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Saturday Night Live recently re-broadcast its first show, from 1975. The musical guests were Billy Preston and...
New Jenna Zark play debuts at Freshwater Theatre
If You Don’t Weaken mixes drama and humor with Jewish customs and rituals as a granddaughter struggles to honor her...
Does terrorism work?
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947, by Bruce Hoffman, Knopf, 618 pages, $35 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER After reading...
Behind those pointy ears, a ‘nice, earnest Jewish boy’
Though not a particularly religious man, Leonard Nimoy, Hollywood’s Mr. Spock, felt that everything he did was informed by his...
Book series to conclude with Anya von Bremzen
The St. Paul JCC’s Twin Cities Jewish Book Series will conclude with an appearance by author Anya Von Bremzen 7:30...
Overwhelmed by past and present
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, by Göran Rosenberg, Other Press, 331 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
