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Josh Shron
Josh Shron
Sep 13, 2018, 10:35 AM
Shiri Maimon: Ready for ‘Roxy’ on Broadway
Since Shiri Maimon emerged on the Israeli music scene as the runner-up in Season 1 of “Kochav Nolad” (A Star Is Born, Israel’s answer to “American Idol”), I’ve made no secret of my admiration for her. OK, so she’s gorgeous....
Heddy Abramowitz
Heddy Abramowitz
Sep 12, 2018, 11:25 PM
Graffiti Your Yom Kippur
Jerusalem walls don't leave you alone. They are in your face, much like this city. It is a self-selecting communication. There is a passive conversation between strangers, the graffiti writers and artists and the random observers out in public, some paying...
Heddy Abramowitz
Heddy Abramowitz
Sep 12, 2018, 5:22 PM
Playing House: Nomi Bruckmann at Ticho House
Dealing with loss is at the heart of The Gift, now on exhibit at Ticho House, with quiet works by Nomi Bruckmann, curated by Timna Seligman. Bruckmann, a veteran artist and teacher at the Israel Museum’s Ruth Youth Wing,...
Herbert J. Cohen
Herbert J. Cohen
Sep 12, 2018, 1:27 PM
Kosher Movies: Sweet Land
About a month before Harry Chapin, the famed story writer/balladeer was killed in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway, I saw him in concert in Atlanta. A highlight of the show was his rendition of “Mail Order...
Herbert J. Cohen
Herbert J. Cohen
Sep 6, 2018, 8:10 AM
Kosher Movies: Apollo 13
In reflecting on my career as a high school principal, I recall many board meetings where a few board members would panic if the enrollment did not go up every year. That statistic alone was the acid test, and...
Moshe Beauford
Moshe Beauford
Aug 30, 2018, 9:34 AM
Review: Gunned Down Horses Take Haifa
Haifa’s Gunned Down Horses recently returned from a brief stint abroad with legendary rockers Deep Purple. On the 50th Anniversary Tour, the GDH performed as Deep Purple's opening act for over 40,000 concertgoers at two shows. Upon returning to Israel,...
Herbert J. Cohen
Herbert J. Cohen
Aug 29, 2018, 9:46 PM
Kosher Movies: The Butler
As a youngster, I had little knowledge or understanding of the Holocaust. There was no Holocaust Remembrance Day that focused my attention on this unspeakable tragedy and I did not know any Holocaust survivors. Once I entered Yeshiva University...
Rochelle Furstenberg
Rochelle Furstenberg
Aug 25, 2018, 9:33 PM
Caricatures, comics, and all the rest
Courtesy of ANIMIX Festival, Tel Aviv
Caricature as exaggeration -- and truth The caricaturist often looks upon public figures, and even those not so public, with a jaundiced eye, ready to make fun, see the foolish, or perhaps, even the evil in politicians. The Knesset members, jubilantly...
Beth Steinberg
Beth Steinberg
Aug 23, 2018, 8:27 PM
Featured Post
Fake News? Shakespeare was all over that
(Adam Perlman)
Only in death is there no pretending when it comes to identity -- just ask Theater in the Rough’s ’Hamlet’
Mel Alexenberg
Mel Alexenberg
Aug 23, 2018, 8:36 AM
Smartphones Can Make Biblical Visions Real
“He had a vision in a dream. A ladder was standing on the ground, its top reaching up towards heaven as Divine angels were going up and down on it.” (Genesis 28:12) I created the artwork “Angel Ascending from the...
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