Rabbi Manis Friedman's contribution to Moment magazine sets off a controversy in the blogosphere
A reporter from the Forward newspaper in New York City called yesterday with some questions about a short piece of ...
Tag: Mordecai Specktor
Celebrating Kushner: 'The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide' and 'Tiny Kushner'
The Marcantonios explain it all, and more  The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide exhibits playwright Tony Kushner’s wide-ranging interest in everything By MORDECAI ...
Editorial: Manufacturing crimes
At first glance, it looked like a case of astute police work. Four ex-convicts, three of them recent jailhouse converts ...
Heavy metal menschen
When two Jewish teens from Toronto vowed to rock on forever in 1973, they forged the musical legacy of Anvil By MORDECAI ...
When journalism became infotainment
As part of the Guthrie Theater’s “Global Voices” series on Monday night, Frank Rich, columnist and former theater critic for the ...
In concert: Leonard Cohen turns up the graciousness
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR You don’t know me from the wind / you never will, you never did I’m the little ...
Daughters of radical lawyer William Kunstler create compelling documentary of a singular advocate
Involvement with the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s led William Kunstler from a conventional law career and suburban ...
Sun sets on Federation's "Israel @ 60 Mission"
It was a whirlwind week for the participants in the Israel @ 60 Mission, who saw the sights and visited ...
Helping Leonard Cohen sound good
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The great Duke Ellington famously said of music: “If it sounds good, it is good.” When Leonard ...
Caroline sings and shines
Musical chugs along, then puts the pedal to the floor with great songs in the second act By MORDECAI SPECKTOR ...
