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Talking to Tevye . . . or at least the man playing him

Jonathan Hashmonay, 29, plays the lead character Tevye in the Broadway stage tour of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Denver at the Buell Theatre, March 14-19.

Concert in memory of Shira Pransky grows from 25 to 1,400

From 25 people to 1,400? From a humble Shira Pransky Project benefit concert to a much larger Yad l’Olim concert, in memory of the daughter of Nate and Amy Davidovich,...

Schlossberg memoir recounts six decades in show biz

On a couple of occasions in Julian Schlossberg’s early life, he found himself in parts of the US where some people he talked to had never met a Jewish person. The...

Abraham Lincoln, a New York Cantor and the Union Army

In Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army, historian Adam D. Mendelsohn recalls the story of how Cantor Arnold Fischel persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to...

Ten questions for Avishai Cohen

Among the young Israelis who started to migrate to New York City in the 1990s, Avishai Cohen made an Israeli jazz fairy tale come true when he jived with pianist Chick...

Sydney Taylor awards announced

An illustrated book about an inspiring Holocaust survivor and two works of fantasy featuring dybbuks and Jewish demons have won this year’s top prizes in Jewish...

London museum seeks famous clothes made by Jews

David Bowie, Greta Garbo and Sean Connery were not Jewish. But some of the garments they made famous — Bowie’s dresses, Garbo’s hats and the tuxedo Connery donned...

‘Turn Every Page’ explores the relationship between literary colleagues

It is the relationship between editor and writer that his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, a documentary filmmaker, explores in her latest film, “Turn Every Page: The...

A verdant Baha’i pantheon in Israel

A Baha’i shrine that will house the remains of one of the three central founders of the faith is under construction in the port city of Acre in what will be the third...

Irish-Jewish genealogical archives now in Israel’s National Library

Israel’s National Library accepted 22 volumes of archives from the Irish Jewish Family History Database, which tracks over three centuries of Jewish life in Ireland.