Culture

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

Books

I have always argued that the 1950s, forever pegged as the decade of conformity, were far more varied and perhaps even more revolutionary -- at least, in the realm of the arts -- than was the subsequent decade that's looked back on, especially by once-radical college students, with sincere fondness. Wherever you look in the '50s, you can see evidence...

Food

The Safari Set

Go out to eat in the neighborhood -- with the neighbors!

By:

Ethel Hofman, JE Feature

When our boys were toddlers and my husband a lowly student, having friends over for supper was a casual, low-budget affair. It was spaghetti and meatballs or a pot of chili, along with a few bottles of Chianti. Later, we graduated to potluck suppers, where everybody contributing a dish. Unless I delegated, we wound up with quite a mish-mash of...

Arts

Batsheva Dancers Fete the Imagination

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Cantor David F. Tilman, JE Feature

One of the great cultural ambassadors of the State of Israel, the Batsheva Dance Company presented its first-ever Philadelphia performance at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts during the area's most recent winter storm. But the weather did not deter a full house of multigenerational modern-dance aficionados from enjoying this engrossing program. Founded in 1964 by international choreographer Martha...

Film & Television

Bank Shots

'International' monetary concerns hit home -- and a Cheltenham native pictures it all

By:

Michael Elkin

What could be more frightening than the mortgage meltdown than banks betting the house on murder and terrorism? "The International" intrigues and instructs; who knew that opening a cache account at the local bank would bring with it an offer of Uzis instead of toasters? "The International" bread is buttered on both sides; as a thriller and a tutorial in...

Books

Literature Gone Askew

By:

Robert Leiter

For someone like myself who came of age reading the great works of the 20th-century modernists -- writers like Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Marcel Proust -- the highly ubiquitous postmodernist movement, which was spawned by the excesses and political shenanigans of the 1960s, has generally been an irritant to me. Whether it's Andy Warhol's soup cans or...