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Music

Playing the Gold Standards

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The Love-Hate Relationship With Leftovers

Film & Television

Saving the Jewish Creators of Superman

Food

A Few New Traditions for Your Pesach Table

By:

Ethel Hofman, JE Feature

On the evening of April 8 -- the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan -- Jews all over the world will come together to be with family and friends to celebrate the first Passover seder. The Haggadah will be read, relating the story of the Jews exodus from Egypt. The seder plate contains symbolic foods that are explained...

Film & Television

'Bubble'-icious: 21st-Century Fox

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Michael Elkin

On the ... "Bubble." That is exactly where the Israeli Film Festival of Greater Philadelphia is bringing its viewers March 26 with an evening screening of the foxy Eytan Fox-directed film at Temple University. A seditious soap opera, "The Bubble" is not your bubba's "Helen Trent." A ménage of trouble arises only when an Israeli soldier brings his new male...

Arts

Dream Analysis: What's Needed to Offset Woes?

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

According to the Talmud, "a dream left without interpretation is like a letter left unread." More than 200 people turned out recently to "read" such letters, so to speak, at "The Gift of the Dream," a one-day conference at Germantown Jewish Centre that examined the content of dreams, what they mean and their role in Jewish life throughout history. Topics...

Books

A Tale of the Theater

By:

Robert Leiter

Chagall and the world he fashioned in his art are becoming something of a cottage industry for Yale University Press. Not surprisingly, this ever-resourceful publishing house has proven itself up to the challenge. In fact, in the space of two seasons, it has issued three separate and quite distinct titles that deal with the Russian-born Jewish artist. First was Vitebsk...

Film & Television

Yes, Next Month in ... 'Jerusalem'

By:

Michael Elkin

"Jerusalem: Center of the World" is central casting of history and histrionics as the city of light shaded in shrouds of secrecy and succession is brought to broadcast status this April 1 on WHYY-TV 12, beginning at 10 p.m. Mecca for monotheism as well as myths, there is nothing singular about Jerusalem, for more than 40 centuries central landscape of...