Playing With The Banned
Hella Winston Special to The Jewish Week Did the haredi rabbis go too far this time?That’s the question being asked in some circles after a ban issued by 33 fervently Orthodox rabbinic authorities...
View ArticleThe Man With A Hundred Faces
by George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week He has been a rabble-rousing Roman poet and a choreographer struggling with a recalcitrant young ballerina, a doctor battling encroaching age and hospital...
View ArticleThe Producer
by Daniel Schifrin Special To The Jewish Week I'm starting to wonder if Mel Brooks' movie-cum-musical "The Producers" will become a central text for Holocaust studies.read more
View Article'Wartime' For Hitler
by Julia Goldman Staff Writer Just as they had won over some of their harshest critics, the people behind an upcoming miniseries about Adolph Hitler find themselves on the defensive again.This week's...
View ArticleGoldberg's Variations ... Not Bach
by Julia Goldman Staff Writer Legend has it that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the Baroque masterpiece known as the "Goldberg Variations" for an insomniac ambassador to be played on sleepless nights...
View ArticleRaising The Curtain Again
by Daniel Belasco Staff Writer Keeping a small Jewish theater company going for 28 years has never been easy, but Sept. 11 almost put the Jewish Repertory Theatre out of business.On that morning, the...
View ArticleYiddish’s New Frequency
by Daniel Belasco Staff Writer Only the gentlest prodding gets Dave Isay and Henry Sapoznik to sputter superlatives about “The Yiddish Radio Project,” the serendipitous act of cultural reclamation...
View ArticleThis JLand Is Your Land
Julie Wiener Associate Editor New ‘virtual world’ offers game-filled Jewish education with a soft sell for 4- to 10-year-olds.‘Mommy, are you done with your e-mail yet?” my 6-year-old daughter Ellie...
View ArticleThis JLand Is Your Land
Julie Wiener Associate Editor New ‘virtual world’ offers game-filled Jewish education with a soft sell for 4- to 10-year-olds.‘Mommy, are you done with your e-mail yet?” my 6-year-old daughter Ellie...
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