Fall arts preview
This fall, Jewish cultural venues in the Washington area will showcase a little less Zoom and a lot more live programming. Producers are offering...
Ari Roth’s third act
Theater producer and playwright Ari Roth last made headlines in the fall of 2020, when he resigned from Mosaic Theater Company, which he founded...
Theater J’s ‘Old Stock’ takes the immigrant saga to Canada
We Jews are wanderers. It’s both an intergenerational curse and survival mechanism. That trunks, satchels and suitcases have always been at the ready, for...
Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish ‘Mass’ returns to its Washington source
When Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” opened the Kennedy Center in 1971, it was the social event of the season. And tensions were high. America was...
A Nina’s-eye-view of the Supreme Court and RBG
REVIEW
“Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships” by Nina Totenberg. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. 304 pages $27.99.
If kindness and...
New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar
By Stephen Silver | JTA
Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discounts stores in...
Jews in gameland: here’s where to spot the Jewish characters in video games
Over the past few years, diversity in video games has become a hot-button topic in the gaming industry and in fan communities. Developers have...
Tisha B’Av and Tu B’Av. What’s the difference?
The Jewish month of Av is home to two holidays that, due to their proximity to each other and their similar names, are sometimes...
Saul Golubcow introduces his Holocaust survivor-turned-private eye
As a student at Rutgers, Saul Golubcow wrote for a literary magazine. An English professor saw something in the young man’s work and urged...
Old jokes for old Jews
Review
Brad Zimmerman peaked, it seems, as a preteen little leaguer. When he hit the ball out of the park, his dad shouted from the...
