Archive for the ‘Arts and Entertainment’
Russ and Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
By James A. Mills Book Review Editor Joel Russ, an immigrant from Strzyzov in what is Poland today, started selling cured, smoked and pickled fish in New York’s Lower East Side in 1914. After a move to Houston Street nine years later, his store, known since the 1920s as Russ & Daughters, thrives in the [ Read More...]
Global water dances – Cincinnati
What: Global Water Dances-Cincinnati at Paddlefest/Pedalfest 2013 is a multi-media event of unprecedented scope, using the power of the arts to engage members of our region on the critical topic of sustainable water purity, safety and availability here and around the world. Where: Serpentine Wall on the Ohio River (located at Yeatman’s Cove between the [ Read More...]
Mandy Patinkin returns to sing with the Cincinnati Pops
By Jory Edlin Assistant Editor Mandy Patinkin will be in Cincinnati, singing with the Cincinnati Pops next weekend. You may know him from his portrayal of Jason Gideon in Criminal Minds, Avigdor in Yentl, Inigo Montoya (“You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) in The Princess Bride, countless other feature films, televsion shows and concert [ Read More...]
New documentary with a strange history
By Michael Sawan Assistant Editor There are events that will restore your faith in humanity. One such story, almost lost to history, is the tale of poker and refugees; cigars and Dwight D. Eisenhower; 1,300 Jews and their new home across the world. Rescue in the Philippines is a new documentary that recounts this stranger-than-fiction [ Read More...]
World class Ariel Quartet performs at Adath Israel, May 19
Adath Israel presents a rare opportunity to hear the Ariel Quartet, winners of the 2006 Grand Prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music competition and the 2003 first prize at the Franz Schubert and Music of Modernity Competition in Austria. “Even at this early point in their career the artistic level was very much in [ Read More...]
PARADE: The Leo Frank Story premiers at CCM
COVINGTON, KY—Despite Tony Award wins for its soaring score and riveting script in 1999, the theatrical telling of the Leo Frank story is one rarely produced, requiring a large and talented cast and recounting a real American tragedy many would rather forget. That will change this April. The Carnegie and CCM Musical Theatre proudly present [ Read More...]
Acclaimed filmmaker turns camera on his own Holocaust experience for ‘Frontline’
By Penny Schwartz Jewish Telegraphic Agency BOSTON – When he was 5 years old, Marian Marzynski’s parents hatched a plan to smuggle him out of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was 1942, and Marzynski and his family were among the 400,00 Jews rounded up two years earlier by the Nazis, confined to the 1.3-sq.-mile ghetto in [ Read More...]
Matisyahu talks about his new religious outlook and appearance
Matisyahu speaks
In Hollywood, looking to Persian Jews for Purim costume inspiration
By Edmon J. Rodman Jewish Telegraphic Agency LOS ANGELES – With Purim this year falling on the same weekend as the Academy Awards ceremony, I found myself wondering how best to get my once-a-year portrayal of a Purim character up to award-winning quality. My standard getup – fake beard, “Persian-style” bathrobe and slippers – is [ Read More...]
Holocaust concert gives voice to the silent
By Michael Sawan Assistant Editor The Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion hosted a well attended concert Sunday, Jan. 27. Part of the Concerts on Clifton series, the afternoon was also in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As such, the music of two Holocaust victims, Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff, was featured. [ Read More...]
