A still from One Of Us. (photo from lokifilms.com/one-of-us) The riveting Netflix documentary One of Us follows three New Yorkers in various stages of the painful process of leaving their Chassidic community. The lone woman among them is far and…
Abigail Pogrebin, author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew. (photo from Abigail Pogrebin) A few years ago, author Abigail Pogrebin spent an immersive year studying the Jewish calendar and attempting to observe it. She chronicled her experience…
Raised by American parents in Montreal, Adam Gopnik moved, with his Canadian wife Martha, to New York City in the 1980s. There, he began a career as an art critic, editor and writer for such publications as GQ and The…
Jewish Conscience of the Church: Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council by Norman C. Tobias (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) is an extraordinary book about the volte face that the Catholic Church executed at Vatican II in 1963 when, as a…
“Maoz Tzur,” recording by Abraham Tzevi Idelsohn. (photo from Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948 by Yehoash Hirschberg) What do we have every year at Chanukah but rarely think about in terms of their origins? The songs. In…
Cookbook author Joan Nathan, left, with journalist Sybil Kaplan. (photo from Barry A. Kaplan) Before I review King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking around the World by Joan Nathan (Knopf, 2017), I have to admit, I am…
Artist and graphic novelist Miriam Libicki is currently Vancouver Public Library’s writer-in-residence. (photo from VPL) “I think that a lot of my stuff does end up having to do with identity, through both the books I’ve published and the one…
Pnina Granirer’s current art exhibit, which is at the Zack Gallery until Dec. 12, features work highlighted in her memoir, Light Within the Shadows. (photo by Olga Livshin) Pnina Granirer has always been an experimenter. She enjoys trying new artistic…
Left to right are Dávid Szigeti (cello), Erik Gow (who plays Alvin Kelby), Kevin Woo (clarinet), Wendy Bross Stuart (piano, music director) and Chris Adams (who plays Thomas Weaver), in rehearsal for The Story of My Life, which is at…
Wells Hill has its world première Nov. 24-26 at DanceHouse. (photo by David Cooper) “What does it mean to imagine a world where we are not connected all the time?” This is just one of the many questions choreographer (and…
