An exhaustive portrait of evil
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, by Bettina Stangneth, translated by Ruth Martin, Knopf, 579 pages, ...
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The Jewish imperative to tackle climate change
This Rosh Hashana is the last observance of Israel’s biblically mandated yearlong farming sabbatical before extreme climate change becomes irreversible ...
'The Green Prince' opens Friday
The Green Prince, a documentary film by Israeli director Nadav Schirman, probes the stranger-than-fiction life of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the ...
Cantor Mitch Kowitz releases cookbook
Cantor Mitch Kowitz has released Kosher Cuisine for a New Generation, a cookbook that pairs recipes with music. Referred to ...
Professor to discuss perfectionism in Judaism
As part of its annual community lecture series, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota will host ...
A filmmaker’s legacy of JCC summer camp
Golden Valley native Scott Z. Burns, who produced An Inconvenient Truth, will speak Sept. 14 at a fundraiser for the ...
Wendy Wasserstein’s great play
Leigh Silverman talks to the AJW about directing The Heidi Chronicles at the Guthrie By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Playwright Wendy Wasserstein ...
The Shoah’s secret society
Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors, by R.D. Rosen, Harper, 280 pages, $25.99 Reviewed by ...
The Cookers come to town
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR David Weiss, a talented jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader, is back in New York City, after ...
Editorial: Who by fire
On Rosh Hashana it is inscribed, And on Yom Kippur it is sealed. How many shall pass away and how ...
