Culture

Business

Stuart Weitzman's Cutting-Wedge Talent

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Alicia Keys Unlocks Groundswell of Jewish Support

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Delia Ephron's Closet Case Histories

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Barbra Streisand Strikes a Chord in Israel

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A Luncheon on the Grass

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Exporter Is Hot Stuff on French Music Scene

Arts

A Prized Philanthropist Awards Tyler School a Topnotch Honor

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Rita Rosen Poley, JE Feature

During the last 75 years, the Tyler School of Art has occupied a bucolic campus in a sleepy part of Elkins Park. This remote haven offered student artists the opportunity to craft their art in a quirky studio setting surrounded by trees, streams and wildlife. At the same time, Philadelphian Jack Wolgin was building a business empire, largely based on...

Books

Yet Another 'Best of' List, This Time Dealing With American Lit

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Aaron Passman, JE Feture

Jews have been churning out great books for thousands of years, going all the way back to the original best seller, the Five Books of Moses. And, particularly in more recent times, Jewish writers have mined the American experience to produce some of the more memorable novels available in English. With that in mind, Josh Lambert has written American Jewish...

Books

All About the Art

By:

Robert Leiter

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!

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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...