Based upon Edward Hopper\’s famous painting of a late-night coffee shop on a desolate city street corner, Douglas Steinberg\’s new play, \”Nighthawks,\” which is having its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theater, features a painter who says only one word in the entire first act.
For Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari, doing the unexpected is standard fodder; so it should come as no surprise that her new single, \”Symphony of Brotherhood\” (featuring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\’s \”I Have a Dream\” speech weaving in and out of an extended string solo) topped the charts just one month after its radio release.
My children were unexpectedly away for a week this summer, and I didn\’t miss them a bit.
Can an alcoholic who was poisoned with his father\’s anti-Semitism use a moment of naked exposure to confront his bigotry? Can he ever hope to cleanse himself of this deeply-seated hatred or is he forever doomed?
100 or so young Jews gathered to celebrate the third issue of Guilt and Pleasure, a literary quarterly out of New York whose first issue featured a cover photograph of a border collie smoking a cigarette.
Could it be that my looks only complement my true best feature — my crazy charm?
The biological mystery of unlike offspring from the same parents is the challenge of parenting some children.
One speaker characterized the Berlin Jewish community as \”a piece of the mosaic that makes up our history\” and emphasized the importance to the city of today\’s Jewish community, which numbers approximately 30,000.
As the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches, the date has become synonymous with the image of wanton destruction. And in addition to the massive loss caused by the attacks, they spawned another form of unrelenting damage — a host of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories implicating the Jews and Israel in the bloodshed.
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