The Tony award-winning actor and singer is now starring in what may be the most positive Jewish play on Broadway in decades.
Brief Reviews: Theater
David Mamet’s Race, Donald Margulies’s Collected Stories, and Mike Burtsyn in the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer. Race Is race still the most
Brief Reviews: Film Festivals
Movies! Movies! Movies! Film festivals continue to be a rich showcase for the latest Jewish films—documentaries from around the world, Israeli feature films and Sefardic
The Arts: Multimedia Ghosts
Kabbala and the shtetl, numbers and tattoos, dolls and embroidery merge in the first major New York exhibition of Argentinean artist Mirta Kupferminc.Mirta Kupferminc’s wandering figures meander
Brief Reviews: A Doctor of Mercy in Ethiopia
RECORDINGS Dancing in the Glory The Jewish Renewal Nava Tehila synagogue in Jerusalem has produced a recording of the original music used at their Friday
The Arts: Photo Shop
Hadassah College Jerusalem’s diverse student body—Jews and non-Jews, sabras and immigrants, Russians and Ethiopians—is not only a snapshot of the city in which the school
Guide to the Arts
EXHIBITS UNITED STATES ARIZONA The Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix (480-951-0323; www.spjm.org) On permanent view is a composite synagogue sanctuary from Djerba, Tunisia, with ornate floral-motif
Brief Reviews: Museum Happening As It Is Written: Project 304,805
It’s a mitzva to write a Sefer Torah. In fact, the biblical commandment requires every Jew to write one, though this has been subject to
Brief Reviews: Films with a Spanish Accent
Films about Mexican Jews like Mariana Chenillo’sNora’s Will and Alejandro Springall’s My Mexican Shivah have been taking the international film festival circuit by storm in recent years. Revealing