By Yehoshua Mizachi Assitant Editor Who Dey Nation should savor the 23-20 victory of our Cincinnati Bengals over the Buffalo Bills. This past Sunday I saw things I never thought I’d see during the Mike Brown era at Paul Brown Stadium. I saw a head coach get schooled by a legend and learn from it. [ Read More...]

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of “What’s Buggin’ Greg” will perform at the Mayerson JCC at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 23. This performance is free and open to the entire community. “What’s Buggin’ Greg,” a world premiere written for Playhouse in the Park and winner of the Macy’s New Play Prize, is [ Read More...]

By Penny Schwartz Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — Fifty years ago, during the height of the civil rights campaigns, the publication of a picture book changed American children’s literature. “The Snowy Day” was about the delight of a young African-American boy named Peter as he experienced the wonder of a freshly fallen snowstorm [ Read More...]

The Mayerson JCC is proud to introduce the new Wolf Center for Arts and Ideas to the entire community at a special event immediately following the JCC Annual Meeting on Thursday evening, Sept. 22. The JCC meeting begins at 7 p.m. and the Wolf Center event begins at 7:30 p.m. The new Wolf Center at [ Read More...]

A unique research collection of children’s Judaica has been established at the Ralph and Julia Cohen Library. Named for Bess Shavzin and Judith Carsch, whose tenure as librarians at Wise Temple spanned nearly 50 years, it is unique among the various special collections of children’s literature housed in public, private and university libraries. Multicultural children’s [ Read More...]

By Yossi Francus Contributing Columnist Until now the choice of a High Holiday machzor with the traditional form of the liturgy used in Orthodox synagogues with an English translation has been mostly limited to Birnbaum – now out of print – (Hebrew Publishing Company, 1951) and  Art Scroll (Mesorah Publications Ltd., 1991). To that list [ Read More...]

By Morris Berg Contributing Columnist Chuck Klein is at it again. Cincinnati’s own ex-cop, ex-private investigator, novelist, story teller and Second Amendment advocate , has a new collection of stories and essays which treat the author’s many interests. These include old fashioned beat cop stories and hot- rodding tales evocative of James Dean or American [ Read More...]

Ed Stern, the Producing Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, will be honored by the theatre community and his audiences over the past 20 years with the creation of the Edward Stern Endowment for Artistic Excellence. According to Endowment Campaign Chair Howard Tomb, “Under Ed Stern’s leadership, the Playhouse has become one [ Read More...]

By Marcy Oster Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — When Israeli music producer-to-the-stars Eitan Gafni put on a global song contest for Jews nearly 20 years ago, finding contestants was difficult. At the time, he called on Jewish Agency shlichim, or emissaries, residing in capitals around the world to find young Jews with musical talent [ Read More...]

The Jewish Film Club is a subscription-based service, which gives its members access to the utmost in contemporary Jewish cinema. These films — hailing from Israel to Europe to the Americas and beyond — illuminate Jewish themes of history, identity, and culture. The films selected are intended for both affiliated and unaffiliated Jews, as well [ Read More...]