Jazz and klezmer merge on 'Azoy Tsu Tsveyt'
Joel Rubin listened to and learned from aging klezmorim Sid Beckerman and Max Epstein, on his road to clarinet virtuosity. ...
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By the shores of Gichigamiwininiwag
The Long-Shining Waters, by Danielle Sosin, Milkweed Editions, 320 pages, $24. Reviewed by LISA WALKER Danielle Sosin’s first novel, which ...
Before the Big Leagues were integrated
Jewish sports entrepreneurs and black baseball players forged unusual relationships in the early part of the 20th century Reviewed by ...
The outcry of the bicycle riders
Israel’s popular revolt started with an outcry about the price of cottage cheese and now envelops the entire Jewish state ...
Facebook allows Holocaust denial pages
Shoah survivors petitioned giant social networking site to remove group pages that propound anti-Jewish 'hate propaganda' NEW YORK (JTA)Â — Facebook, ...
Mourning Amy Winehouse: A biblical vixen goes back to black
By DVORA MEYERS NEW YORK (JTA) — Late last year, I spent the better part of a month working on ...
Letters to the Editor: July 22, 2011
Resolution was flawed On July 7, the U.S. House of Representatives considered H. Res. 268, a resolution regarding Israel and ...
Editorial: Jews and the earth
I felt a pang of despair earlier this month when I heard about the ExxonMobil pipeline oil spill in the ...
Madoff’s scam
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In a work of uncommon clarity, New York Times reporter Diana Henriques traces Bernie Madoff’s empire ...
A few minutes with Sen. Franken
Minnesota’s junior senator talks with the Jewish World about the debt ceiling debate in Washington, his plan to visit Israel ...
