Every decade has its Cher comeback, and this one’s no exception. Seth Rogovoy offers some background on the one-named songbird’s heritage, Jewish and (mostly) otherwise.
Jews made their mark in the world of illusion long before Harry Houdini — and a new generation aims to amaze. Today’s magicians talk about the Jewish side of suspending disbelief.
David Copperfield is the premier magician of his era. But he is also still David Seth Kotkin, the son of middle-class Jewish parents from Metuchen, N.J.