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Forward Saying ‘adieu’ to San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum 3 Dec
The impending closure of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a reflection on its struggle amidst financial difficulties exacerbated by the pa...
3 Dec
Forward Sitting shiva for his wife, an overcaffeinated academic is scalded by grief 23 Oct
Mark Haber's novel "Lesser Ruins" offers a layered, introspective, and often comedic exploration of grief, creativity, and personal failure. The protagonist,...
23 Oct
Forward In the words of the Torah and the music of Toto and Peter Gabriel, now is the season of renewal 17 Sep
Michael Hearst, of the klezmer duo One Ring Zero, embarks on a unique project to explore and reimagine 80s pop music with a touch of Jewish reflection and cr...
17 Sep
Forward We're in a psychological war with 'the greatest propaganda machine in history' — will we survive it? 20 Jun
In "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind" by Annalee Newitz, the book explores how stories have been weaponized throughout histor...
20 Jun
Forward A Transylvanian-American klezmer blues bash right at home at a Brooklyn fiddle summit 19 Apr
The article discusses a unique musical event, the Neighborhood Fiddle Summit in Brooklyn, featuring klezmer violinist Zo Aqua and the old-time string band Th...
19 Apr
Forward A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia — does the joke translate? 18 Apr
An American version of the British sitcom "Friday Night Dinner" set in a Jewish home has been created, titled "Dinner with the Parents." The American adaptat...
18 Apr
Forward Is Adam Sandler's Kafkaesque Tarkovskyesque Kubrickesque Netflix sci-fi drama better than it sounds? 5 Mar
In the Netflix sci-fi drama "Spaceman," Adam Sandler plays Jakub Procházka, a man on a solo mission to investigate a mysterious space cloud named Chopra. Dir...
5 Mar
Forward How a Jewish playwright's internal Israel-Palestine debate became a Russian doll of Trojan horses 29 Feb
Itamar Moses, following his Tony Award-winning musical "The Bands Visit," has two new plays premiering in New York: "Dead Outlaw" and "The Ally" at The Publi...
29 Feb
Forward A heartbreaking story of Nazi-era heroism — but why did it take so long for it to get here? 9 Jan
"One Life" is a new film based on the book "If It's Not Impossible," depicting the heroic efforts of a small group of middle-class Brits in the late 1930s wh...
9 Jan
Forward How Ayn Rand, Emerson and Thoreau perverted the American Dream 4 Apr 2023
Dan Friedman's article explores Alissa Quart's critique of the self-reliant American Dream in her book, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American...
4 Apr 2023