Arts
It’s Supermensch!
The History of Invulnerability challenges what we think we know about Superman and his Jewish creators By DORIS RUBENSTEIN For...
Anita Diamant will speak at Hillel fundraiser
Acclaimed author will talk about her most recent novel, Day After Night, a story of four women in a British...
Menachem Begin for the Jews
Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul, by Daniel Gordis, Schocken, 311 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Daniel Gordis...
‘A Bintel Brief’ conjures Forward’s sage editor
“A Bintel Brief” (Yiddish for “A Bundle of Letters”) was the popular advice column that began running, in 1906, in...
Upcoming: The Idan Raichel Project, May 14
Idan Raichel Israeli music luminary Idan Raichel talked with the American Jewish World this week, via telephone from his home...
Win free tickets to 'Walking with the Enemy'
Inspired by a true story, Walking with the Enemy is an unforgettable film of love, courage and sacrifice. Set in...
'Noah': A wrathful God, his main man and CGI
The film loosely based on the biblical story of Noah’s Ark comes with a disclaimer that it ‘is true to...
CTC’s 'Balloonacy' is fun for all ages
The show — a story of friendship between a man and a red balloon — is intended to evoke the...
Israel’s single mothers from the East
Israeli anthropologist Smadar Lavie returns to Minnesota to speak about her new book on Mizrachi mothers versus the bureaucracy By...
Collaborating to save lives in the Shoah
The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wasserstein, Harvard, 352 pages,...
