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Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

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Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

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Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

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David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

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The Day After the Big Day

Keep that belt loosened for a Shabbat of thanks

By:

Linda Morel, JE Feature

I love the night after Thanksgiving. It's the perfect time to host a late fall Shabbat dinner for friends and relatives who spent the holiday with other people. Making the most of this opportunity, my niece's in-laws routinely celebrate Thanksgiving a day late, because they know all four of their married children will be able to join them the next...

Food

Season of the Pumpkin

Nothing could be better on a crisp autumn day than a pumpkin-walnut muffin and a hot cup of coffee or tea. Try this recipe from the Metropolitan Bakery in Center City. And for a departure from traditional pumpkin pie this year, the Panera Bread company suggests this sweet, smooth after-dinner treat that might just become your favorite new fall tradition...

Theater

Of Latkes and Lasagne

Ron Tobin mixes it up in a mix of different cultures

By:

Michael Elkin

You have to give a hand to Jews and Italians -- they're so good at using them. Audiences, too, have been using their hands to applaud the success of "My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy," a Prozac-popping production of angst and antics at the Society Hill Playhouse. Ron Tobin totes two types of guilt as a...

Music

A (Music) Man of the World

By:

Michael Elkin

Give a holler, and Ami Yares will come runnin'. Well, at least as long as it takes him to fly over from Israel. But he knows the route: The HOLLER! band co-founder hails from South Jersey, but he has traveled far and wide from his adopted home in Jaffa. Last stop: World Cafe Live, in which his American-influenced Holler held...

Dance

Gotta Dance?

Soviet émigré Sasha Farber's floor-burnin' gig lights up Philly

By:

Michael Elkin

Yellow waxy buildup never had a chance against the dripping, streaking sensuality of the dancers who torch the tiles of "Burn the Floor." Or is it all a linoleum litmus test? Doesn't matter; when you're hot, you're hot -- and the dancers who sizzle smoke from mopping the floor with their Fahrenheit 500 don't so much answer "So You Think...