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A 'Magic' Premiere Fulfills Cheltenham Teen's Dying Wish

Arts

Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

Film & Television

Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

Food

Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Books

Lost ... and Found?

The ongoing quest to retrieve art looted by the Nazis

By:

Robert Leiter

Something extraordinary occurred recently in the long, ongoing battle to retrieve art looted from Jews by the Nazis.

Food

A Trip to Mango Town

The journey can induce a Caribbean state of mind

By:

Eileen Goltz, JE Feature

I have a simple suggestion for a "mini" vacation. Try picking up a few mangoes in your produce section, and then your tummy can take a trip to a Caribbean state of mind.

Food

Salt of the Earth

All of a sudden, sodium is trendy

By:

Linda Morel, JE Feature

With pink salt from Bolivia, gray salt from Spain and black salt from Hawaii, sodium is suddenly trendy.

Local

Students Respond to Holocaust Through Art

The winners of the 38th Annual Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition were recognized for their distinctive expressions of two- and three-dimensional art, poetry, prose, music, multi-media and dance during a recent reception at the Moore College of Art and Design. More than 400 7-12th-grade students from public, private and parochial schools throughout the Greater Philadelphia area participated in the competition,...

Music

Shuk, Rattle and Roil?

Israeli group shakes up the notion of what a band can accomplish

By:

Michael Elkin

Is the Shuk -- with its mantra of "Preserve, Perpetuate and Innovate" -- Israel's sand-dune version of "Survivor"? This Jewish tribe has spoken; more importantly, it's sung. And in the marketplace -- shuk's meaning in Hebrew -- of ideas, this one thrives on sound advice. As leaders of the band, Brooklyn-born Yoni Avital and Cherry Hill's Ami Yares are actually...