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Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Food

A Pocket Culinary Tour Through Israel

Music

Don’t Turn Your Nose Up at Cabbage

Film & Television

Things to Do During Heritage Month

Theater

Sister Act

They are related on stage, but unrelated off, playing a Tzeitel and Chava who share different 'shtetls'

By:

Michael Elkin

Tzeitel and shtetl -- perfect together? On the one hand, the role of eldest daughter has done pretty well by a number of actresses -- Bette Midler, Sharon Lawrence -- in the 46 years since the original of "Fiddler on the Roof" first scratched out its timeless tune. On the other hand ... there is no other hand. And Rita...

Film & Television

An Inspector Clouseau With No Clue About Jews

By:

Michael Elkin

License to ... kibitz? OSS 117 is an odd job of a super spy, a male piggish espionage "expert" from France looking for ex-Nazis whose own self-resistance is nil; that's OK because 117 is a zed. But writer Jean Bruce has his number, and the author of a series of books about this French foreign legume of an incompetent has...

Food

Hope This Rubs You the Right Way

The rhubarb, that is!

By:

Eileen Goltz, JE Feature

When a friend and her daughter came for a visit toting a plate of rhubarb and strawberry bars, you'd have thought that my son would have had a little more tact before digging in and stuffing his mouth with three pieces at once and proclaiming in a tone loud enough for the neighbors to hear: "Wow mom, these are amazing!...

Music

We Are the World, We Are Israeli ...

Idan Raichel Project to bring fusion to Sunday's 62nd birthday party

By:

Michael Elkin

The Ashkenazi Lawrence Welk? Don't mean to burst your bubble, Idan Raichel, but how could such a cool kid commit to an accordion to start his iconoclastic climb up rock's rocky highway? "It helped keep my eyes and ears open to sounds all over the world," says the now 32-year-old sabra from Kfar Saba, so far away from those early...

Books

'The True Poison: Art or Life?'

A volume of poems that examines this question, and a host of related ones

By:

Robert Leiter

Turtle Point Press, which I discussed at considerable length in this space several years ago, continues to be a plucky independent publishing venture, one that proceeds at its own pace, follows its own quirky vision and always manages to surprise alert readers with the titles it puts out. Turtle Point is a remarkably small operation run out of a one-room...