Soviet Jew Movement Exhibit Comes To Mandell JCC in Hartford CT.
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford has brought a traveling exhibit about the movement to free the Soviet Jews in the 1960s to the Mandell JCC's Chase Family Gallery.
The exhibit, "Power of Protest: The Movement...
‘Mixed Marriage,’ a one-act play
Written after the contentious election in 2016, my one-act play Mixed Marriage was a winner in the 4th Annual SDC JCC Five Minute Shorts and has even more relevance today.
It all started when I heard of...
Jews against themselves by Edward Alexander
Every Anglophone reader, Jew and non-Jew, owes it to him or herself to read Jews against Themselves. And every non-Anglophone country that aspires either to establish or maintain democracy owes itself a good translation. Rarely...
Miami Jewish Film Festival Announces 2018 Lineup
Art Basel is over, but Miami's next cultural extravaganza isn't far off. The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) will return this January for its 21st year. January 11 through 25, MJFF will screen 62...
Holocaust filmmaker’s animated doc in Oscar hunt
Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or...
Tovah Feldshuh’s True-Life Role as a Daughter
Lilyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played by Tovah Feldshuh; Hatchette Books; 2021; ISBN:9780306-924026; $29.
It’s hard to believe that Lilyville is a first book given its accessibility and universal appeal. This memoir of four-time Tony,...
Hillel Kogan’s We Love Arabs explores the relationship between Arab and Jewish Israelis
Why do people have to take controversial issues so seriously? In a world where every political debate turns into a new reason to abuse barbiturates, it feels like it's time for everyone to just...
Local Performances Spotlight Holocaust-Era Composers
Polish-born pianist, Daniel Wnukowski, performed at two venues during his recent visit to San Diego County. On Sunday afternoon, November 13, he gave a recital of works by Mozart, Chopin and Schumann in the...
‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,’ new to Netflix, offers no glimpse of character’s ‘Jewish soul’
Crocodiles are not kosher. But the much-beloved protagonist—initially misunderstood as a villain—of Bernard Waber’s children’s books “The House on East 88th Street” and “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” is arguably Jewish.
Waber, who wrote and illustrated the...
Gevalt in Our Stars
A Brief History of Yiddish Astrologic Practices
In a striking Rosh Hashanah greeting card from the early 1900s, an angelic figure festooned with flowers directs a group of children to look skyward: “Children! You are...