Arts

NEW YORK (JTA) — Marvin Hamlisch, the acclaimed composer and arranger of dozens of Broadway plays and films, has died...

Footnote, written and directed by Joseph Cedar, and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is now...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Retrieving Moshe Dayan from an increasingly distant past, Mordechai Bar-On’s biography provides a good overview —...

Local musician (and former AJW intern) Danny Hechter will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of his...

Local author Amy Ariel pens a middle grade novel about two Jewish girls who celebrate Shabbat together in St. Paul...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER What did Americans know about Hitler, Nazis and abuse of Jews before the war? If they...

The American Jewish World is widely known as the go-to source for info on rock music, from the Jewish tip....

Guthrie Theater presents its second Neil Simon play, The Sunshine Boys, directed by Gary Gisselman By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN /...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Harvey Pekar’s conflicted lament over Israel would be more tolerable with more facts and fewer errors,...

The July 6 edition of the Forward features a story about the increasing popularity of Ladino music, and how a...