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Klezmer and the ghost of Germany’s past
Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTAMar 05, 2009
FREIBURG, Germany At the height of the recent uproar over Pope Benedict XVIs rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying bishop, I attended a klezmer concert in the...
The year Israel was finally going to win Academy Award
Tom Tugend, JTAFeb 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES This was the year Israel was finally going to win an Oscar for best foreign language film after being nominated seven previous times. After all, Ari...
‘Color Purple’ star has her own story
Andrea JacobsJan 15, 2009
Stephanie St. James hears the phone and wakes up from a serious cat nap. Hello? Oh, hello. Yes, I have coffee, right here. The night before, St. James was in...
Book review: It takes a special genius to make sense out of ?Purities?
Temima ShulmanJan 09, 2009
In his newest book, The Boy on the Door on the Ox, Rabbi Martin Samuel Cohen takes his reader on an atypical journey. Not the journey where the journey is […]
Farewell, Mike Shanahan
Gerald MellmanJan 08, 2009
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, marked the saddest day in the Denver Broncos history. The day before, it was learned that Mike Shanahan, Broncos head football coach for 14...
Profile: TV sports anchor Eric Goodman follows the action
Gerald MellmanDec 31, 2008
Sports director and anchor Eric Goodman at Fox Channel 31 is representative of the high caliber of sports personalities doing this kind of work on the local scene. You...