Sabes JCC stages ‘They Called Her Captain’
Maggie Bearmon Pistner remounts her one-woman show, which tells the story of her mother’s army service during World War II ...
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Israel’s great poet, Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is widely considered to be Israel’s greatest contemporary poet. The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Farrar, Straus and ...
A colorful Jewish hero
Max Baer and the Star of David, by Jay Neugeboren, Mandel Vilar Press paperback, 206 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
The ‘Queen Social Bee of Knollwood’
Paula Rubin, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and was a successful businesswoman in St. Paul, died at 92 By ERIN ...
When there is no miracle
Eli Morgenstern, of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, visited Minneapolis recently to speak about his program that helps Israel’s ...
Worshipping in the holy temple of sports
We need to find a way for sports to be important without becoming idolatrous By ALEXANDER DAVIS Super Bowl 50 ...
Chicago’s legendary black newspaper
In 1991, Jewish journalist Ethan Michaeli was hired by The Chicago Defender, the newspaper of the Windy City’s black community. ...
Yiddish Vinkl marking 25 years
The group continues its silver anniversary season with Carnival of the Animals on March 13 By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / ...
Israel’s unknown border guard
The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel’s Undercover War against Suicide Terrorism, by Samuel M. Katz, Berkley Caliber, 371 pages, $27 Reviewed ...
Justice Scalia’s Jewy moments
Interactions between Scalia, and Jews and Judaism were not always predictable By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s a matter ...
