Arts
A life of service, to state and family
Running to Make a Difference, by Leonard Levine, Bascom Hill trade paperback, 236 pages, $17.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Leonard...
Aline and R. Crumb draw on their life experiences
R. Crumb was the celebrated cartoonist of the 1960s psychedelic culture. In the ’70s, he met Aline Kominsky, who was...
CANCELLED / Author Joshua Henkin to speak
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER. As part of the St. Paul Jewish Book Fair, Joshua Henkin will...
Roni Ben-Hur teams with bass ace Santi Debriano
Some AJW readers might have seen Israeli jazz guitarist Roni Ben-Hur play at the St. Paul JCC in February 2011....
From tough girl to tikkun olam
Born in prison, local Jewish author Deborah Jiang Stein looks back at the struggles of her life and how she...
The maestro as a man
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein, by Jonathan Cott, Oxford, 183 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL...
Minneapolis Jewish Humor Fest runs through Jan. 26
The Sabes JCC is hosting the fourth annual Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival through Jan. 26. This festival of one-person shows,...
‘Old-fashioned Jew-hatred’
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Neil Kressel’s Sons of Pigs and Apes is too important to deserve the fate of many...
Try not to drool upon ‘Jerusalem: A Cookbook’
Yotam Ottolenghi was raised in the Jewish precincts of West Jerusalem, and co-author Sami Tamimi is from the Arab east...
Omer Avital and the Band of the East will play Thursday evening, Jan. 10 at St. Paul JCC
The Jan. 4 issue of the AJW featured a story about acclaimed Israeli jazz bassist and composer Omer Avital. Music...
