Arts
Stories of Jews in America
The UnAmericans, by Molly Antopol, W.W. Norton and Company, 256 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by ROBIN DOROSHOW With the numerous and...
Hollywood does 'Noah'
Russell Crowe is Noah and Jennifer Connelly is Naameh in "Noah." (Photo: Niko Tavernise) Last week's top-grossing film in the...
The rabbi of modern Israel
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution, by Yehudah Mirsky, Yale, 273 pages, $25 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Like...
Sharon Isbin to appear at film festival
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival includes several films of interest to the Jewish community The regional premiere of Sharon Isbin:...
Poles still grappling with Shoah's 'Aftermath'
Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s ‘harrowing exposé’ of war crimes and cover-ups is wrapped in a seductive thriller By MICHAEL FOX Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s...
Eli Degibri and band swing on new album
Eli Degibri, an accomplished Israeli saxophonist and composer, follows his last album, Israeli Song, with Twelve (Plus Loin), a batch...
Simon Schama returns to his roots
The five-part documentary, 'The Story of the Jews' — spanning 3,000 years of Jewish history — will be broadcast in...
Negotiating with the enemy
The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Schalit from Hamas, by Gershon Baskin, The Toby Press, 281 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER...
Amos Oz writes about kibbutz life
At the age of 14, two years after his mother committed suicide, Amos Oz (né Klausner) joined the Labor Zionist...
Music from both sides of Jerusalem
David Broza gathered a cast of talented Israeli and Palestinian musicians, along with some special guests, to create musical magic...
