Editorial: Repression in the guise of fighting antisemitism
Perhaps, you haven’t heard about it, but members of the Jewish clergy, locally and nationally, are standing against the Trump ...
Tag: American Jewish World
On trumpet, Frank London
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR My last interview with Frank London took place nearly 10 years ago. The irrepressible trumpet player for ...
Editorial: In the ghetto
An interior view of the Spanish Synagogue in Venice, Italy. Construction of the largest and best known of the Venetian ...
Surviving the hell of death camps
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Josef Lewkowicz, a survivor of the notorious Płaszów concentration camp and five others, says he’s no ...
Natalie Fine Shapiro’s artworks bring the colors of spring
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Spring is a cause for celebration. The Christians have Easter. We have Passover. But for local artist ...
Kim Kivens treads the boards in CDT’s production of ‘Grease’
The cast of "Grease," with Kim Kivens front and center, at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. (Photo: Dan Norman) By DORIS RUBENSTEIN ...
Taking care of little Joel
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER London bachelor Téo Erskine’s monthly visit to his ailing father Vic turns into an unwelcome surprise: ...
Editorial: Will Trump turn on Israel, too?
As we were going to press with our February issue, a rather extraordinary spectacle was taking place at the White ...
Moving Jews beyond Hitler’s reach
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Best known among Shoah rescuers is Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swede who saved thousands of Hungarian ...
Jewish Cubans survive the island’s economic collapse
By MICHAEL APPLEMAN During my December humanitarian mission to Havana, Cuba, after visa and immigration impediments at José Martí International ...
