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

Arts

Opening Barnes’ Doors

Music

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

Food

At Shavuot, a Salute to the Land of Milk and Honey

By:

Ethel Hofman, Jewish Exponent Feature

THE JEWISH KITCHEN In ancient times, Israel was crowned "the land of milk and honey." And with the abundance of fine, fresh Israeli dairy products, this is still true today. Although everyone agrees that the food of choice for Shavuot is cheese, as in blintzes and kugels, there are many opinions as to why it has become customary to serve...

Books

Art for Art's Sake

By:

Robert Leiter

Of all the artists known as Abstract Expressionists -- those color field, action-painting revolutionaries who, with just a few bold splashes of paint in the 1950s, shifted the art capital of the world from Paris to Manhattan -- the least well-known of them has probably always been Philip Guston (that is, if you're not mentioning the sole original woman Hedda...

Food

Do As the Romans Do

There's quite a bit of history to it

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Linda Morel, Jewish Exponent Feature

WHAT'S COOKING? Both Italian and Jewish, my husband wanted to show me the Roman Jewish ghetto. In May 1984, we strolled through this sliver of a neighborhood near the Roman Arch and saw hardly a soul. Perusing dusty Judaic shops, several of them closed, I found the surroundings depressing. But last May, retracing our steps, I was amazed to see...

Film & Television

Aargh and Oy!

Does Johnny Depp know about these Jewish 'Pirates of the Caribbean'?

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Michael Elkin

Did "Pirates of the Caribbean" miss the boat on its fourth voyage to world box-office dominance? Don't the producers know Jack about the rarely told story of ... Jewish "Pirates of the Caribbean"? Shiver me timbers? Go put a sweater on; there's a draft coming on. And who knows, maybe it's the draft for the fifth screenplay in the dizzyingly...

Books

The Politics of Slaughter

How two dictators bloodied the heart of Europe

By:

Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES How is it that a historian as able as Timothy Snyder can get so many things right in his new book Bloodlands , published by Basic Books, and yet get one big thing so wrong? This work, which clocks in at close to 500 pages, is a detailed record of mass murder beginning in 1933 and ending in...