Chabon’s Vinyl Vision
Diane Cole Special To The Jewish Week Blacks, Jews and tikkun olam in an old-school record shop in Oakland. An achingly poignant vibe of sweet and soulful idealism makes itself heard throughout...
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus Special To The Jewish Week A pilgrimage to Uman, a family secret and a father-son reconciliation. For Rosh HaShanah, 5771, two years ago, I had dragged my father, a rabbi, and my...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen’s Lyricism
David Koral Special To The Jewish Week New biography profiles the legendary ‘Who by Fire’ singer-songwriter. With the Days of Awe upon us, the sense of fear and trembling is almost palpable in the...
View ArticleAiring A Life On The Air
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Radio talk-show legend Barry Farber recounts his stories from both sides of the microphone.During his five-plus decades as a radio talk-show host, Barry Farber has reigned as...
View ArticleAm I A Jew?
Steve Lipman Staff Writer New York author spends 18 months exploring, here and in Israel, the meaning of Jewish identity. At first glance, a children’s book about Crypto-Jews in the Southwest, which...
View ArticleCan Science And Religion Just Get Along?
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Britain’s provocative chief rabbi makes a case for a ‘partnership’between the empirical and the spiritual. A figure of great stature, and sometimes the center of controversy...
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Lehman Weichselbaum Special to the Jewish Week St. John’s professor and poet Stephen Paul Miller is trying to make the case for a distinct Jewish-American poetry.Is there a Jewish-American...
View ArticleFleshing Out A Story
Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic Jami Attenberg on the inspiration behind ‘The Middlesteins.’Edie Middlestein loves fast-food sandwiches, potato chips with onion dip, and Chinese dumplings...
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Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic Rebecca Dana’s ‘Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde’ documents an ambitious young writer’s search for meaning. Some girls imagine their wedding day when...
View ArticleYehoshua Takes On The Artist
Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic His richly plotted ‘The Retrospective’ hinges on ideas about artistic integrity and moral commitment. Givatayim, Israel –‘The Retrospective” is a work of art...
View ArticleJodi Picoult Takes On The Holocaust
Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic The bestselling novelist wades into new territory with ‘The Storyteller.’ Early on in Jodi Picoult’s new novel “The Storyteller” (Atria), Josef Weber comments...
View ArticleJodi Picoult Takes On The Holocaust
Bestselling novelist wades into new territory with 'The Storyteller.'
View ArticleJodi Picoult Takes On The Holocaust
Bestselling novelist wades into new territory with 'The Storyteller.'
View ArticleLeonard Cohen’s Lyricism
David Koral Special To The Jewish Week New biography profiles the legendary ‘Who by Fire’ singer-songwriter. With the Days of Awe upon us, the sense of fear and trembling is almost palpable in the...
View ArticleThe Long Road To Forgiveness
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Special To The Jewish Week A pilgrimage to Uman, a family secret and a father-son reconciliation. For Rosh HaShanah, 5771, two years ago, I had dragged my father, a rabbi, and my...
View ArticleHow History Shapes A Family
Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic Alexander Stille excavates his parents’ past in ‘The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace.’ When Alexander Stille’s mother died in 1993, she left few...
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Special Book Excerpt, Letty Cotton Pgrebin
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View Article‘Hidden Encyclical’ No Longer Hidden
Steve Lipman Staff Writer The unpublished Vatican document that lambasted Nazis’ anti-Semitism, and the U.S. priest who played a key role in writing it. Bethesda, Md. — Did Pope Pius XII, the leader...
View ArticleTwo Sides Of Beauty
Sandee Brawarsky Jewish Week Book Critic In her new memoir, Patricia Volk navigates between two charismatic women — her mother and Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. As she watched her mother...
View ArticleTwo Sides Of Beauty
A memoirist reflects on the fashion icon who gave her an 'alternative way to be.'
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