156 stories from Washington Jewish Week
Who are these bald characters, their faces painted clown white, their lips bright red? Wearing matching white sharkskin suits, they sing multipart harmony, doo wop, beebop, pop, disco, and R…
More than a dozen years ago, when playwright Amy Herzog graduated from college, she took a cross-country bike trip, from New Haven to San Francisco. Then she moved to New York, where she liv…
There are many stunning moments of Jewish and Christian confluence to hear in Thomas Beveridge's "Yizkor Requiem," his hour-long piece for chorus and orchestra that builds bridges between tw…
NEW YORK - Advertising, it's fair to say, is in Ben Feldman's blood.
MONTCLAIR, N.J. - In the space of a single painting, Siona Benjamin juxtaposes feminism, Indian mythology and Jewish imagery.
Barely a minute into Philip Roth: Unmasked, an "American Masters" salute occasioned by the novelist's 80th birthday, he makes a familiar, albeit annoying, assertion.
Ezekiel Emanuel, 56, older brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm and Hollywood agent, Ari, has just written a book about the three superstar siblings, Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Fami…
When the New York-based band Balkan Beat Box, founded by a trio of Israeli ex-patriot musicians, returns to Washington for a one-night stand Tuesday, March 19 at the 9:30 Club, they'll bring…
NEW YORK - What would happen if a pretty, educated, secular journalist experiences a horrible breakup, finds herself broke and ends up living with a jujitsu-practicing atheist rabbi in a cha…
To understand where Danny Kaye stands in the current cultural pantheon, know that 29-year-old Daniel Walshaw had never heard of the entertainer before he was chosen to curate the multimedia …
The cow rose gently into the air, looking robust and healthy until, with a brief spray of blood, its head separated from its body and both parts fell. Moments later a second cow flew up. Thi…
Benjamin Abramowitz was only 19 when he disregarded his Russian immigrant parents' advice that painting was no way to make a living. He changed his name and joined the Work Projects Administ…
"Due to the very real sirens outside, tomorrow's performance of "Mad Siren" is unfortunately canceled." read the notice choreographer Idan Cohen sent out on Nov. 17 of last year. More than 1…
Once upon a time, a loving parent sent a baby boy to an uncertain future far from home for fear he wouldn't survive if he stayed where he was. Found by kindly natives, he was raised like a n…
There are no shades of gray in David Mamet's provocative legal drama Race, which deals with guilt and innocence, truth and fabrication, in black and white. For Mamet, race is everything in a…
Since the Six Day War in 1967, two invisible webs have covered the West Bank and Gaza. One is the Palestinian population - sometimes quiescent, sometimes violently resistant. The other belon…
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame , edited by Washingtonians Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy (Twelve), is among the winners of the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards. It took the top spot …
Dr. Nathan Moskowitz is not your typical artist.
Ironically, the best word to describe the newly forged connection between two art academies - one here in Washington, D.C., the other in Jerusalem - is b'shert, Yiddish for "meant to be" or …
After months of walking from Ethiopia into Sudan, starved and swollen from a scorpion sting, the young Ethiopian girl got her first glimpse of the people who were supposed to save her.
Stepping into Arena Stage's Cradle, its experimental theater space, viewers will be struck next week by the accumulation of stuff filling the intimate playing space: a wooden wheelbarrow, a …
The news that Philip Roth was retiring from writing fiction - "I'm done" is how he announced it to a French interviewer in October - stunned a readership that was well aware that he is in hi…
