2008 Archive
In the beginning was the WORD 02.14.08
Meal-prep firm caters to special diets 02.14.08
Art of the state: Israel’s ‘Gen-X’ filmmakers 02.05.08
At a loss for words 02.05.08
The language(s) of immortality 02.05.08
A rabbi’s journey to tolerance 01.31.08
Lessons from a hummingbird 01.31.08
The poster boy’s story: stranger than fiction 01.31.08
Fuhgeddaboutit? | A Jewish perspective on the multicultural ‘Sopranos’ 01.24.08
Who will care for the caregivers of frail elders? 01.24.08
TuB'Shevat | Will you speak for the trees? 01.17.08
A seder to celebrate the trees 01.17.08
Nathan Zuckerman’s tangled swan song 01.17.08
Historic 'Agreement' 01.10.08
Getting dumped 01.10.08
Moscow Spotlights 01.10.08
Family pictures at an exhibition | Black and White 01.03.08
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Jew! 01.03.08
Moscow Spotlights The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in Time of Revolution 01.03.08
2007 Archive
'Derech eretz' an old parenting ally for a New Year 12.20.07
WHAT EXIT? 12.20.07
East meets 'ess' - Japanese cuisine for the kosher kitchen 12.06.07
Iran is all words — but words have consequences 12.06.07
Inside the box 11.29.07
A light bulb moment 11.29.07
Fellow travelers for the season 11.29.07
High Tech Hanukka 11.29.07
Holiday Sounds 11.29.07
'I was lucky' 11.22.07
Terminated 11.22.07
A separate peace 11.15.07
Scholar asks why bad things happen to good religions 11.08.07
Searching the shadows 11.08.07
Raising kids Jewishly in a 21st-century world 11.08.07
Huck Finn as a stylish, sexy Jewish immigrant 11.01.07
A new song
Musical musings from the inside 10.25.07
Oy, Jerusalem — a film better left undone 10.25.07
Racism and indifference to it marked '36 Olympics 10.25.07
Comic trip
A humorous look at the life of a contemporary, suburban — and Jewish — family 10.18.07
Finding strength one month at a time 10.18.07
One man's terrorist... 10.18.07
A Djerba odyssey
Recipes from the Land of the Lotus Eaters 10.11.07
Einstein bio reveals new facets to the 'locksmith' of the cosmos 10.11.07
The things we keep: The newspaper 10.11.07
Cajun cooking – the Big Easy in the kitchen 10.04.07
Reality in black and white 10.04.07
It's harder to keep the faith 09.20.07
Wishful policy-making 09.20.07
The Rosh Hashana rugelach 09.13.07
Artistic impressions 09.06.07
Bathing in the waters of paradise 09.06.07
Hitler and Germany's musical aristocracy 09.06.07
NJ filmmaker embarks on mission to film ‘triumphant' Shoa story
Despite real threats, the Jewish state has a future
'Primo Levi's Journey'
Too much journey, too little Levi 08.23.07
A hidden treasure
Annecy, near the French Alps, is unforgettable 08.09.07
Fiction filled with promises and first-rate writing 08.09.07
Fear and coping
Leonard Cole says America has a lot to learn from Israel 08.09.07
A sculptor's legend
Native New Jerseyan curates a exhibit of Louise Nevelson work 08.09.07
Forman film conjures Goya’s ‘Jewish’ ghosts 07.19.07
Outdoor summer fun for the whole mishpacha07.19.07
Autopsy on ‘degenerate art’
West Orange doctor examines the Nazis’ assault on modern painting and sculpture 07.12.07
Fated ‘Funny Girl’
West Orange performer comes full acting circle 07.12.07
Lives of semi-quiet desperation in the New Jersey suburbs 07.12.07
Guardian angel
A family’s rescue inspires daughter to create film 07.05.07
Avenue ‘K’ 06.28.07
Know thy enemy in order to stop him
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat 06.28.07
Hello Muddah redux
For former New Jerseyan, memories of camp, happy or not, still keep their grip 06.21.07
The Holocaust, Charles Reznikoff, and ‘found' poetry 06.21.07
The sounds of klezmer at the JCC 06.21.07
Finding new ways to honor our parents 06.14.07
Music and midrash
Partnership presents unique duet of song and study 06.14.07
Northern exposure: Imagining Yiddishland in Alaska 06.14.07
Being Jewish a lifelong process 06.07.07
The case for dialogue from a Palestinian moderate 06.07.07
And God said, ‘Let there be Boca' 05.31.07
Back to ‘El Avram'
Reliving the glory days of the storied Village nightspot, Watchung's Avram Grobard will bring his music to Clark 05.31.07
‘Holy Torah, Batman!'
New Jersey author mines the Batcave for spiritual and ethical messages 05.31.07
Nazis picked Jews as forgers in secret World War II plot 05.31.07
Reawakening the golem 05.24.07
A family spiritual countdown 05.17.07
Tri, tri again
Apply the rule of three to Shavuot feasting 05.17.07
Oh, mother! 05.10.07
A spring break like no other 05.10.07
The mother lode
Clark-born comedian mines her ‘outsider status’ for stage show and book on Jewish moms 05.10.07
Walls make bad neighbors
New Jersey author reaches back across a century and an ocean 05.03.07
Mastering our feelings:
Lessons learned from a rattlesnake 04.26.07
Travels with Ruth
Author's Jewish journey informs novel about the Torah heroine 04.26.07
Denial denied
Play by quiz show host and NJ native explores issues of free speech and hatred 04.19.07
The things we keep 04.12.07
Anatevka revisitedThe Shtetl: New Evaluations 04.05.07
Font of beauty
Artist creates digital typeface reflecting sacred text 04.05.07
Jews on first
Little League edition 04.05.07
An Israeli icon’s early years
Israel Museum exhibit reveals richness of Reuven Rubin’s output in the Diaspora 03.22.07
Dance of the Lord
Liz Lerman brings her Dance Exchange to Newark for the premiere of a work about the nature of prayer 03.22.07
Gratitude
A pathway to happiness 03.22.07
Filmmaker explores his parents’ marriage 03.15.07
Film shows child survivors choosing life 03.08.07
Kid Kosher
NJ rapper uses ‘hip-hop Hebrew’ to get his message to teens 03.08.07
‘Single mom seeking’ a man who avoids drama and braids hallah 03.08.07
Sensual, sexy, corrupt France — and the woman who loves her 03.01.07
Hamantaschen fit for a queen
For a royal Purim, try poppy seeds again 02.22.07
If a tree falls in the forest, what do you hear? 02.22.07
A ‘modern Jewish mom’ offers hope to harried households on Shabbat 02.15.07
NJ entrepreneur’s ‘Perfect Gift’ celebrates adoptive families 02.15.07
On Israel —
The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders 02.15.07
What to really watch out for in the Mideast 02.15.07
Guiding New Jersey educator authors book to aid in raising teens 02.08.07
The February Dilemma?
A time for romance, flavanols, and embracing the unexpected 02.08.07
Director shares his ‘Blues’
Film festival to screen award-winning documentary 02.01.07
Pro-Nazi Hungary’s loss was free world’s gain 02.01.07
‘Tam’ on stage
Yiddishkeit is front and center in New Jersey couple’s production 02.01.07
The birds 02.01.07
A neoconservative sounds off 01.25.07
A guilt-free collaboration 1.18.07
Coming home
‘Brooklyn Boy’ explores passage of time with laughs and insight 1.18.07
Playing Mussolini, partly, and smartly, for laughs 1.18.07
Chicken soup and candlesticks
Rituals create family security 01.11.07
‘Hagiography’ of Sharon written by a confidant in race with death 01.04.07
Mini-MySpace 01.04.07
One Jew’s new view of the evangelicals
Brought up in Jersey, author finds himself a stranger in a strange pew 01.04.07
2006 Archive
The healing artist
Daughter of Shoa survivor links painting and medicine 12.28.06
I’m dreaming of an inclusive Christmas 12.21.06
Mother of invention 12.21.06
Enough!
One-woman play brings terrorist victims to life — briefly 12.14.06
Apologies for FDR’s inaction don’t hold water
Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust 12.14.06
What’s a nice Jewish boy doing at the helm of a Christmas radio show? 12.14.06
Can’t we just be friends?
Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew Across the Middle East Divide 12.07.06
Eclectic mix of music — hip-hop even —for holiday gift-giving 12.07.06
‘The birds and bees have left the building’ 12.07.06
Beet it!
Myriad uses for a colorful, versatile veggie 11.30.06
Stone soul
Memories of Jerusalem inspire New Jersey artist 11.30.06
Mitzva in 3D
Soft sculptures bring Israel to family’s celebration 11.23.06
Taking the blessing challenge 11.23.06
‘Covertly Jewish’
Hints of his Short Hills upbringing spice a writer’s Off-Broadway musical 11.16.06
Naming names
For Jack Klugman, a starring role recalls a fearful era 11.16.0
Graphic horror
A son’s memoir in words and pictures stands out among new Shoa books 11.09.06
Play on 11.09.06
A tapestry of words and song
Seminar to showcase American-Jewish music, poetry, and political thought 11.02.06
Princeton prof pens biography of poet, and Zionist, Emma Lazarus 11.02.06
I.B. Singer: prize-winning author, minimal mensch 10.19.06
Mellowed shtick
Comedian Robert Klein brings his vintage comedy to South Orange 10.19.06
Racial experiments give lie to ‘moral equivalency’ of suffering 10.19.06
Asserting Hitler’s ‘improbable’ debt to the dramas of Ibsen 10.12.06
‘One Jew Talking?’: Jackie Mason heads to Newark 10.12.06
Coming together under one roof 10.05.06
Get to know the other Bayonne 10.05.06
(Chinese) Apples for the New Year 9.28.06
In the midst of madness
New play explores interactions of characters struggling to be ‘good Germans’ 9.28.06
Jump for Joy
Celebrities are in the spotlight in Montclair exhibit marking the centennial of photographer Philippe Halsman’s birth 9.21.06
Noted writer’s shrill lamentation decries the ‘fallen-away’ Jews 9.21.06
Chicken soup for the spirit
NJ rabbi’s new anthology offers inspirational readings for Rosh Hashana 9.14.06
Painful family secrets focus of local author’s first novel 9.14.06
A ‘gem’ of a novel
NJ author draws on her upbringing to write ‘cathartic’ book for teens 9.07.06
An ‘eBay’ for lenders and borrowers, with an emphasis on Jewish values 9.07.06
How Hitler recruited the media in the war on Jews
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust 9.07.06
From generation to generation
NJ Judaica studio carries on a family tradition of artistry born in Israel 8.31.06
When Jews rejoiced at black boxer’s knockout of Aryan champion
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink 8.31.06
In survey of American-Jewish letters, a call for writers to own their past 8.24.06
Musical connections
New Jerseyan Scott Leader uses his art to put young people in touch with their Jewishness 8.24.06
How Yiddish satire, drama, comedy brought pleasure to the Diaspora 8.10.06
Love on the other side of 60
New Jersey director’s mother has a bright idea: a film on senior-set dating in snowbird land 8.03.06
Remembering a giant of British and Conservative Jewry 8.03.06
Turning points
with life coach Randy Nathan 8.03.06
Alohoy vey: Jewish life on laid-back Big Island requires drive 7.27.06
Cloth encounters
NJ author weaves tale of Paterson’s silk industry 7.27.06
Looking to past wars for insight into the present conflict
Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy 7.27.06
No meat for nine days?
No problem 7.27.06
A little song, a little dance, a little shpritz down your pants 7.20.06
Por Caridad 7.20.06
Uncovering a California library’s affinity for Nazi racism 7.13.06
Listen up
A round-up of CDs for a summer of musical delights 7.11.06
A triangle of love and faith
New play at NJ Rep examines mother-daughter tensions over an evangelist’s appeal 7.11.06
Jewish immigrants enrich American landscape in Ragtime 7.06.06
The paper chase: What to do with your kids’ old schoolwork 7.06.06
Jersey-raised director Bryan Singer lives a dream in bringing Superman back to the big screen 6.29.06
Funny, Dolly, you don’t look Irish 6.29.06
Memoir traces author’s quest for father’s hidden life and love 6.29.06
A real but limited role for neocons in the march to war 6.22.06
Random thoughts from a bat mitzva 6.22.06
Soup’s on for a savory summer spread 6.22.06
Newark-born author raises moral questions 6.15.06
Turning points 6.15.06
Crown Heights riot — fact, fiction, and plenty of blame 6.08.06
Experiment — and dip in for a snack or dessert 6.08.06
The doctor is in 6.08.06
No fiddle?
Rutgers Hillel group makes beautiful music without one 6.01.06
Shabbat dinner: the real Happy Meal 6.01.06
See Karl Run
Rutgers prof translates Yiddish poet’s groundbreaking Shoa novel 5.25.06
Elegy for Twinkies: OU? Oh, no! 5.18.06
Artistic horizons 5.11.06
Healthy living, luxury style 5.11.06
Kung pao to kugel 5.04.06
Tell me a story — Ellen Musikant 5.04.06
Kushner schools offer a second helping of their best-selling kosher cookbook 4.27.06
Unburied treasure 4.27.06
Big love, Jewish-style
Five gold bangles and worlds of difference 4.20.06
Liberator and liberated 4.20.06
Civil War seder 4.20.06
A writer finds a rueful smile in a Shoa memoir 4.20.06
Local artist and teacher combines art and Torah in her life and work 4.13.06
Beyond hate: NJ educator, subject of TV film on Shoa survival, recalls the pain and urges tolerance 4.13.06
CHEF JEFF: Orange you glad it’s Passover? 4.13.06
A pretty girl, a beautiful play 3.30.06
What makes this seder different?
Slapstick, shtick, and shmaltz 3.30.06
An office jerk or the image of God? 3.23.06
‘Altar Boyz’ didn’t leave me laughin’ 3.23.
Film festival showcases 14 NJ premieres 3.16.06
Japanese cooking for the kosher kitchen 3.16.06
Jerry Lewis, Newark’s own, recalls glory days with his pal Dean Martin 3.16.06
Mensch of La Mancha 3.16.06
Painting Elizabeth 3.09.06
Writer ‘rattles’ suburbia in a gossipy new novel 3.09.06
An emotional journey: Director discusses his Oscar-nominated film on anti-Nazi heroine 3.02.06
Turning Points 3.02.06
An emotional journey
Director discusses his film on anti-Nazi heroine 2.23.06
Painting Elizabeth
Artist’s mural at Workmen’s Circle center celebrates the old days 2.23.06
Denying the refuters (Book review) 2.16.06
Be the class pet if you must 2.16.06
Our ‘daughter,’ the Israeli officer 2.16.06
Drawing on the Jewish experience 2.09.06
Inside the annex 2.02.06
Study of Nazi anti-Semitism refutes Hitler’s apologists 2.02.06
Out of this world 1.26.06
Why Jews fly south for the winter: poolside fun and pampering 1.19.06
Marinating made easy 1.19.06
Examining ‘The Right To Be Wrong’ 1.19.06
Author explores the double lives of fervently Orthodox ‘rebels’ 1.12.06
Children of shalom 1.12.06