JxJ Festival returns live with focus on Jews of Color, LGBTQ Jews
While much of the world got through the first two-plus years of the pandemic streaming and Zooming, Dava Schub says there’s nothing like a...
You Should Know … Aaron Shneyer
Aaron Shneyer believes that music can transform the world — or at least change people and communities for the better. The Takoma, D.C., resident...
Forgotten Bernstein quartet will be performed at Bender JCC
Updated, May 2, 2022, 11:55 a.m. This story was updated to reflect a change in ticket price.
Like a triple flat in musical terms, discovering...
HBO’s ‘The Survivor’ asks a profound question
Jarrad Saffren | Staff Writer
How powerful is a reason to live?
That is the question that animates Jewish director Barry Levinson’s new movie, “The Survivor,”...
Author Eric Rozenman on the decline of just about everything
Review
“From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack Obama” by Eric Rozenman. Washington:...
You Should Know… Eli Lev
Silver Spring native Eli Lev, 40, just released his pandemic-based project “Walk.Talk.Dance.Sing.” The singer-songwriter draws inspiration for his indie folk music from his Jewish...
From clergy to creative artist. From spoons to something special.
One day, remembering a college friend who sometimes bent cafeteria forks into crude bracelets, Doug Heifetz picked up a fork and gave it a...
Is it time to retire ‘The Merchant of Venice’?
When William Shakespeare penned “The Merchant of Venice” between 1596 and 1599, he considered it a comedy; couples Portia and Lorenzo and Nerissa and...
Don’t recycle the Maxwell House Haggadah just yet
“The Rational Passover Seder, The Alperson Edition” by Dennis Prager. Edited by Joseph Telushkin. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Faith, 2022. 180 pages. $29.99.
“Night of Beginnings:...
A century after first Bat Mitzvah, Jewish coming-of-age still evolves
By Sasha Rogelberg
For some Jewish tweens, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s reality was their worst nightmare.
The evening before, Eisenstein’s father, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, told...
