'Punching the Clown' mines folksingers' misfortune and misadventures for laughs
Henry Phillips walks onstage in a scene from Gregori Viens new film "Punching the Clown." (Photo: Viens Films, LLC) In...
NEWS INDEX
Film to highlight two of the Righteous Among the Nations
Journey to Freedom will be screened on Oct. 9 Until 2006, only one American, Varian Fry, had ever been named...
Sukkot and global warming
You meet the most interesting people in the Jewish World offices. Two recent visitors were from the Arava Institute for...
The way we were Midwest Jews
A Serious Man brings the renowned Coen brothers back to their peculiar Jewish milieu of St. Louis Park By MORDECAI...
Review: 'A Serious Man' unspools funny and foreboding bubbe meises
Amy Landecker stars as Mrs. Samsky, shown here with Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays protagonist Larry Gopnik, in writer/directors Joel and...