Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with...
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The New York Times says a Palestinian medic’s death in Gaza could be a war crime
by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL (JTA) — The New York Times devoted much of its front page and three inside pages Sunday to a...
Lisa Heilicher: A modern-day Maccabee
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR At the funeral for Elissa “Lisa” Heilicher at Beth El Synagogue, Rabbi Alexander Davis began his eulogy...
Daniel Kahn’s ‘Yiddish punk cabaret’
Publicity for The Butcher’s Share (Oriente Musik), the new album by Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird, notes that the ensemble...
MMAA finds new home in St. Paul’s Lowertown
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Like the wandering remnants of the Kingdom of Judah who finally found a home in Eretz Yisrael,...