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

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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

Pining for Pineapple

Healthy, sure, but also a handy holiday gift

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Eileen Goltz, JE Feature

There is always the problem of what to bring as a hostess gift when you've been invited to share a yontif meal with friends. A Waterford vase with flowers is obviously too over the top, and a book, while nice, is problematic in that my taste (murder mystery eclectic and veering toward who lopped off Colonel Mustard's head in the...

Food

The Call of Fall: Sip Some Soup

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Keri Fisher, JE Exponent

This time of year, when the leaves are just beginning to turn and the mornings are cool and breezy, I turn my back on cold dinners eaten on the patio and look to my favorite part of the coming autumn: simple, delicious soups. A true cream-of-mushroom soup is hearty, earthy and deliciously savory. Like peas and carrots, the flavors of...

Music

String Theory

From Philadelphia to Warsaw, how a master violinist plucks plaudits from the air

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Michael Elkin

No loose strings on Joshua Bell's plentiful portfolio; indeed, his career-making connection to Philadelphia has become even more taut with time. And what the master violinist -- who has taught younger musicians in classes that bespeak his mettle as a class act -- has learned since having his debut at age 14 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, is that "you feel...

Theater

Faith on the Fringe

Wars and remembrance: Two stories, two legacies -- one thread of history

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Michael Elkin

Etty-tude: It is what kept Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jew caught in the clogs of the Holocaust and the concentration camp at Westerbork, able to maintain dignity even as the Nazis damned her future. "If I should not survive," she wrote, "how I die will show me who I really am." Who she was is the subject of Susan Stein's...

Food

What Do I Do When My Pan's Turned Black?

And other culinary questions from college

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Louise Fiszer, JE Feature

For many of our college-bound kids, back to school means living on their own for the first time. The realization that their apartment doesn't include a cook or a kitchen consultant (aka Mom) can be more than a little shocking. I used to get panic phone calls regularly with questions like "How long does it take to boil water?," "How...