Arts
Andy Statman: Ascending on the wings of music
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Andy Statman, a musician’s musician, who has played with everyone from Bob Dylan to Itzhak Perlman, returns...
Perlman and Helfgot play Jewish ‘comfort music’
Renowned violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman pursued this collaboration with Israeli-born Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. The 10 songs on Eternal Echoes:...
Acclaimed Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon to speak
Acclaimed contemporary Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon will visit the Twin Cities next month as the second author in the Culture...
A place for crafting and talking
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor When Connie Ross traveled to Israel more than 15 years ago, she...
An unfamiliar fighter
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Mordechai Anielewicz is honored and memorialized for leading the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which several hundred...
Walker Art Center to present 40th anniversary of the Choreographers’ Evening
In the 40th anniversary edition of the Walker Art Center's Choreographers’ Evening — an honored rite of passage in Minnesota...
"Halleluja," an acoustic version by Hillel Tigay
By the age of 13, Hillel Tigay showed signs of being a prodigy in Jewish music. He could chant Torah...
A more intimate clarinet festival
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen reports that she was spared the calamitous effects of Hurricane Sandy. “We’re some...
Kafkaesque stories from Israel
Acclaimed Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret will speak Nov. 14 at the Sabes JCC By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Israeli author...
Young women, coming of age
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth), the debut novel from Israeli author Shani Boianjiu, has been critically acclaimed...
