Editorial: Life is better in Copenhagen
Brightly colored townhouses from the 17th and early 18th century line the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen. Famed Danish writer Hans ...
Tag: Sweden
An elder jazzman
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On Aug. 14, Ben Sidran, the renowned jazz pianist, composer, chronicler of American music and raconteur, will ...
Editorial: Jews of the Black Hills
Visitors to Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota, are attracted by the graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity ...
Editorial: A visit to Denmark and Sweden — and war breaks out
My wife, Maj-Britt, and I boarded a flight for Amsterdam on Oct. 5. We set off to visit our expat ...
With dozens of world leaders watching, Sweden looks to turn around its reputation on antisemitism
By KATARZYNA ANDERSZ MALMÖ, Sweden (JTA) — Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, has in recent years become known as a ...
The Manhattan Transfer hits town
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Manhattan Transfer, the perdurable and still swingin’ vocal ensemble, returns for four shows, Feb. 10-11, at ...
Editorial: ‘Who shall live and who shall die’
High Holidays shul-goers will hear the powerful Unetane Tokef (“We shall ascribe holiness to this day”), a liturgical poem chanted ...
Overwhelmed by past and present
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, by Göran Rosenberg, Other Press, 331 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER ...
Can 'Diplomacy' save Paris from a devoted officer of the Reich?
This impassioned debate about the prospects for human civilization is a profile in conscience By MICHAEL FOX It is not ...
Remembering ‘Mr. Baron’
Fred Baron, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, dies at 91 By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor Judith Baron ...
