Arts
'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,...
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...
