Evan Maurer invigorated Jewish arts in Minnesota
By JUDITH BRIN INGBER Evan Maclyn Maurer died Nov. 2, 2023, in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79. Maurer was ...
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Music’s power to heal
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR When the AJW contacted pianist Emmet Cohen on a Friday afternoon in late April, he was visiting ...
Jersey City’s Jewish mayor didn’t wait to call the kosher store shooting an anti-Semitic attack. Here’s why.
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was one of the first New Jersey officials to describe ...
Meet Iris, the Jewish Icelandic singer with the voice of an actual angel
By JORDANA LIPSITZ (JTA) — I met Iris before her first solo show in the green room at the Bootleg ...
Eli Valley: Cartoons for the crisis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR During a September 2017 appearance on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show, cartoonist Eli Valley said, regarding the aim ...
Grateful Dead, from right to left
Ami Yares, a musician and teacher, will be featured, with Sagol 59, in a Dec. 12 concert at the St. ...
Actor, farmer, poet, rabbi
Rabbi Avi Strausberg, of Temple of Aaron, focuses on adult education and finding creative ways to engage with the Jewish ...
Bon Jovi to perform in Israel
(JTA) — American rock band Bon Jovi announced it will perform in Israel for the first time. Jon Bon Jovi ...
Israeli skaters train for Sochi — in New Jersey
At the indoor Ice House complex in Hackensack, Israel’s Winter Olympians train at the highest level By HILLEL KUTTLER HACKENSACK, ...
Guinness records broken for menora lighting, dreidel spinning
(JTA) — A New Jersey synagogue said that it set a new Guinness World Record by lighting 834 menoras on ...
