Mountain Jews who have emigrated from Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Chechnya or the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, are adapting their traditions to newfound freedoms of America.
Film Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women In her documentary, Rachel Talbot uses clips of Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers,
Beat This: Still Drumming at 75 Last February, The Klezmatics won a Grammy in the world music category. Now klezmer—that newly hip 500-year-old music tradition—is
Recordings Refuge Rock Sublime Singer-actor Mare Winningham has invested her Jewish devotional album with country twang, guitar pickings and a passion for her newfound faith.
Stony-faced and Silent The heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising live again in a pantomime performance by six Israeli actors, members of the theater group