Culture

Business

Stuart Weitzman's Cutting-Wedge Talent

Music

Alicia Keys Unlocks Groundswell of Jewish Support

Theater

Delia Ephron's Closet Case Histories

Israel

Barbra Streisand Strikes a Chord in Israel

Food

Exporter Is Hot Stuff on French Music Scene

Books

The Jewish literary world -- from time immemorial -- has been a primarily male province. There were exceptions throughout history, of course, but these were also always exceptions that proved the rule. Only recently -- meaning within the last 35 or 40 years, with the feminist movement that had its roots in 1960s activism, and flowered in the '70s and...

Food

Pining for Pineapple

Healthy, sure, but also a handy holiday gift

By:

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

By:

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

By:

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...