Arts
‘Cello goddess’ Beiser rocks out
In the liner notes for her new album, Uncovered (Innova), Maya Beiser writes that Janis Joplin’s “unique, raw expression” gained...
An exhaustive portrait of evil
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, by Bettina Stangneth, translated by Ruth Martin, Knopf, 579 pages,...
'The Green Prince' opens Friday
The Green Prince, a documentary film by Israeli director Nadav Schirman, probes the stranger-than-fiction life of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the...
Cantor Mitch Kowitz releases cookbook
Cantor Mitch Kowitz has released Kosher Cuisine for a New Generation, a cookbook that pairs recipes with music. Referred to...
A filmmaker’s legacy of JCC summer camp
Golden Valley native Scott Z. Burns, who produced An Inconvenient Truth, will speak Sept. 14 at a fundraiser for the...
Wendy Wasserstein’s great play
Leigh Silverman talks to the AJW about directing The Heidi Chronicles at the Guthrie By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Playwright Wendy Wasserstein...
The Shoah’s secret society
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors, by R.D. Rosen, Harper, 280 pages, $25.99 Reviewed by...
The Cookers come to town
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR David Weiss, a talented jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader, is back in New York City, after...
Jon Stewart on filming in — and talking about — the Middle East
Stewart’s directorial film debut, Rosewater, is based on the memoir of an Iranian journalist who was arrested after appearing on...
A wife’s captivating tribute
Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me, by Lucinda Franks; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pages, $28 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If...
