We’re coming up on the 30 th anniversary of the opening of the Bosnian war, which began, more or less, at the beginning of April 1992, and e...

  Jewish Currents, July-August 2006 The Sphere of the Endless [New York City, summer 2006. In which your faithful columnist heads to Joe...

January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day , marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the last few ye...

If you've ever studied a second language, you know there's a huge difference between the skills needed for passive reading comprehen...

 My Rokhl's Golden City comes out twice a month. Are you caught up? Did you see: Talking to the Dead :  A few months ago Brooklyn witch...

EDITED TO ADD : For kids my age ('80s babies) Jews in the Catskills means one thing: DIRTY DANCING. Well, on Tuesday, September 14, DIRT...

(Crosspost from my  movie blog ) A couple months ago I wrote about the neon-and-leather fairy tale flop,  Streets of Fire . It's finally...

On April 19, the Congress for Jewish Culture , along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle, will once again ob...

"Without hubris you will never be an artist..." -my teacher, Ruby Namdar Last week I had the honor of joining Ruby Namdar, Fania O...

I'm pleased to say that video is now available for the live webinar I moderated on the role of Jewish women and resistance.  Wagner Coll...