Smithsonian Mag revisits the life and crimes of one of the Lower East Side’s most notorious criminals, “Old Mother” Mandelbaum. Yahoo! News spotlights the Ger Mandolin Orchestra. Adam Kirsch reflects on the lingering anti-Semitic associations of 9/11. A Jewish life insurance salesman has unveiled a four-tonne steel statue in memory of 9/11 in London’s Battersea…
Oy! Chicago gets fed up with the Millionaire Matchmaker. Mel Brooks talks to Newsweek/The Daily Beast about Jewish humour and the “cloak of gentile correctness.” Jeffrey Shandler writes for Zeek about utopia, nostalgia, and photographer Albert J. Winn’s pictures of abandoned summer camps. In Commentary, Joseph Epstein argues that the publication of Alfred Kazin’s journals…
In this week’s New Yorker, Alex Ross discusses Mieczysław Weinberg’s Holocuast opera, “The Passenger.” A new petition initiated by playwright Joshua Sobol and poet Taha Muhammad Ali calls on Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals to support a Palestinian state. Israel is using tax breaks and terrorism insurance to lure Hollywood production. Before he died, lyricist Jerry…
The Jewish Museum has chosen Claudia Gould, head of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, as its new director. Speaking of Jewish museums, are there just too many of them? Hitler has become a symbol of popular subversion in China. Hitler has taken over television programming at the BBC. Which includes…
Sara Ivry talks to comic book artist Joann Sfar, diretor of a new film about French Jewish songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Leonard Slatkin has suffered a heart attack, been fired from the Metropolitan Opera and had the Detroit Symphony Orchestra go on strike, but the Los Angeles conductor keeps on trucking. “Paradise Lost: Purgatory,” a documentary…
Woody Allen casts Rome’s real-life paparazzi as themselves. Washington Post music critic Anne Midgette defends Steve Reich’s controversial ‘WTC 9/11’ album cover. Ralph Branca’s mother was Jewish. So what? David P. Goldman wonders whether Wagner’s music should be banned in Israel. Meet Leah Caras, creator of Yaldah, a glossy teen magazine for Orthodox girls. Khaled…
Mother Jones profiles Yemen Blues. Read our take on the band here. Morris Dickstein appreciates the all-too-overlooked Delmore Schwartz. Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Stephen Sondheim doesn’t much like the revamped version of “Porgy and Bess.” Danielle Berrin provides a comprehensive take on today’s Jewish actresses. Charlotte Gray,…
Roseanne Barr announced on the Tonight Show that she was running for president. Sarah Lazarovic illustrates her family trips to out-of-the-way shuls. Jenna Weissman Joselit reviews Michael Levy’s “Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion.” Richard McBee takes a look at paintings depicting the destruction of Jerusalem. Along with Jack White and…
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