Tag: Mordecai Specktor

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Rabbi Marc Liebhaber began writing a column in the American Jewish World around 40 years ago. The ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert shot to worldwide fame with the 1962 song “The Lonely Bull.” The ...

This week, Jews everywhere are observing the festival of Sukkot. We are commanded to live in little huts. The sukka’s ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Hebrew National hot dogs devised a popular slogan, in 1965: “We answer to a higher authority.” As ...

Ivan and Adam Rafowitz, father and son, release an album of smooth jazz tunes By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The new, self-released ...

In the way of review, in the previous AJW editorial, I mentioned that over “many years, epochal historical events have ...

Leigh Silverman talks to the AJW about directing The Heidi Chronicles at the Guthrie By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Playwright Wendy Wasserstein ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR David Weiss, a talented jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader, is back in New York City, after ...

On Rosh Hashana it is inscribed, And on Yom Kippur it is sealed. How many shall pass away and how ...

Renowned singer-songwriter returns Sept. 14 to headline Herzl Camp’s ‘Music & Musings’ event By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Peter Himmelman understands that ...