Shai Maestro’s eloquent 'Stories'
At the age of 19, pianist Shai Maestro began touring and recording with Israeli jazz bass virtuoso Avishai Cohen. In ...
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Kids, enter our Hanuka Cover Contest!
Attention, artistic youth: the American Jewish World's 24th annual Hanuka Cover Contest is in full swing. The winning artwork depicting ...
Judaism and the Western Wall
Local Jewish federations issue a misguided call to protest Muslim efforts to change the status of the Western Wall By ...
Obama and Netanyahu get down to business
Disagreements behind them, the two leaders sat down for a two-hour discussion that Netanyahu described as ‘substantive, practical’ By RON ...
‘Where there is humanity, there is comedy’
’70s sitcom king Norman Lear on making TV that breaks ground By CINDY SHER CHICAGO (JUF News via JTA) — ...
Multi-faith learning center to open
By The Rivers, a new multi-faith and interfaith lifecycle and learning center, will hold an open house 1 to 5 ...
Those madcap Marx Brothers onstage
The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers’ first film, originated on the Broadway stage, and now returns to the Guthrie stage By ...
Actor, farmer, poet, rabbi
Rabbi Avi Strausberg, of Temple of Aaron, focuses on adult education and finding creative ways to engage with the Jewish ...
Just how Jewish is Carole King?
King’s life and career — and her Jewish influences — are brought to the stage in a new musical, presented ...
An invitation to visit Keret World
In the title story of Israeli author Etgar Keret’s newly rereleased collection, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God ...
