“The Good Doctor” by Neil Simon and directed by Dr. Michael Andron, will kickoff the 07/08 season of JCAT (Jewish Cultural Arts Theatre), the new theatre program of the Rabbi Norman Mussman Cultural Arts Department of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center.With its Broadway premier in 1973, “The Good…

I went to the screening of "A Mighty Heart"--activists Brad Pitt’s and Angelina Jolie’s movie on the Al-Qaeda murder of Daniel Pearl--expecting a movie with an agenda.

And that is exactly what I got. That, plus a Lifetime Channel weepy-damsel-in-distress movie of the week. Muslims are the heroes--NOT…

Is it possible that a series of hidden codes encrypting modern day events can be found in the Five Books of Moses?

Can it be that we were warned about the thousands of deaths that resulted after the tsunami in Asia or the attack on the World Trade…

"Wonder Wheel" wins Best Contemporary World Music Album

Although the songs are all sung in English rather than Yiddish or Hebrew and the melodies are certainly not all ‘Klezmer sounding,’ the Klezmatics, a Studio City, CA based Jewish Music Group (JMG), made…

Meet Benjamin Warschawski, a tenor who keeps the tenets: a world-class opera star and Orthodox Jew who lives with his family in Boca Raton.

Ordinarily, one might not expect the opera, screaming fans of NHL hockey, and Orthodox Judaism to appear together in…

Extensively updated, new edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica will be available December 8

The editors of the Encyclopaedia Judaica’s new edition confronted a whole new world.In the more than 30 years since the first edition was published, Jewish life has been revitalized in…

A dapper gentleman of 38, Jonathan Greenstein is proprietor of J. Greenstein & Co. of Brooklyn, which he describes as "the only auction house completely devoted to Jewish ritual objects in America." 

Recently, Greenstein brought his Jewish version of the popular "Antiques Roadshow" television program to Toronto. He…

Two months ago in a report on the Miami Jewish Film Festival, I asked our readership to strongly support the artistic endeavors of Jews who have devoted their lives to the arts as a career. In regard to Jewish filmmakers, this obviously would mean taking the time to see…

No mention was made of the contestants’ Orthodoxy in the first episode, so no one outside the show - whose cast is committed to iron-clad non-disclosure agreements - knows how, and if at all, their religious identities will be portrayed.

Viewers of this week’s premiere of "The Apprentice"…

Over the ages, Jewish music, so to speak, has always been religious, prayer music. However, over the past half century, really beginning with the Shlomo Carlebach era, Jewish music has branched out. In Israel, the popular songs and performers, although using Hebrew as the language of the lyrics, are…

Ask a young person today to listen in to their Discman or I-pod, and you may be shocked at what they are tuned into these days.  Remember when parents would say, "That's not music, that's just noise?" Most adults today would say that about what the youth of today…