A country western musician - and he's Jewish

Allen Dolgoff, 71, began playing music for the same reason as many young boys: to impress girls.

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:26am on August 6, 2012☆⚑

A dirty book

Messy homes get a bad rap, especially in children's books. The dishes pile up in the sink, toys are buried under the dirty laundry and no one can find anything. And who plays the heavy, scol…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:24am on August 1, 2012☆⚑

Six (big) words

What can be done with only six words?

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:20am on August 1, 2012☆⚑

'Captors' shortchanges captor-captive relationship

It's been a half century since Israeli Mossad agents captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major architects of Hitler's Final Solution, and spirited him from Buenos Aires to Jerusalem. Tried i…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:48am on July 18, 2012☆⚑

Who will hit Iran?

Dan Raviv, a CBS News correspondent with a Mideast specialty, and Yossi Melman, an intelligence and military affairs correspondent for the Israeli daily Haaretz, have written a number of boo…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:20am on July 16, 2012☆⚑

Jewish voices take the stage at the Capital Fringe Festival

When the Capital Fringe Festival opens today, offbeat Jewish voices will be among the 134 productions housed under the expansive Fringe umbrella, a big tent that offers experimental one-act …

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 1:54pm on July 11, 2012☆⚑

The story of a big mission - and a tiny Torah

This story has it all. There is Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space who happens to be the child of a Holocaust survivor, and who also happens to be one of the pilots on the mission that d…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 1:52pm on July 11, 2012☆⚑

Women in wheelchairs 'Push' boundaries in real life, TV

LOS ANGELES - Mia Schaikewitz parked her shiny black Mitsubishi Eclipse in front of her graphic design office in Pasadena, Calif., looking glamorous in her black leather jacket and purple ey…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:49am on July 3, 2012☆⚑

Black, McCain prove opposites can converse

Can two people from completely different worlds talk to each other? Michael Ian Black and Meghan McCain think they can.

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:48am on July 3, 2012☆⚑

'Hunger Games' social media video hits the jackpot

NEW YORK - It's post-apocalyptic America and you're in District 12 of Panem. With your bow and arrow, you are helping Katniss Everdeen hunt for meat and berries to bring back to your family.…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:45am on July 3, 2012☆⚑

New music, new tour

Finding sparks in unusual places is how Matisyahu describes his new album Spark Seeker, set to come out on July 17 on his own label, Fallen Sparks Records via Thirty Tigers/RED. "It's always…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:00am on June 27, 2012☆⚑

What hurts you

You wouldn't recognize Sarah Lightman in person from the version she presents of herself in her comics. Smart in a black jacket and skirt, with ringlets of blond hair and confident speech re…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 3:38pm on June 20, 2012☆⚑

Interview with Larry Kramer

While it's taken more than a quarter of a century for a full production of The Normal Heart to come to a major theater in the Washington, D.C., region, playwright Larry Kramer is still ready…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 2:42pm on June 20, 2012☆⚑

Fighting for Truth, Justice - and tikkun olam

Parsing the mid-20th century American Jewish imagination, playwright David Bar Katz has penned a cross between a true-life creation myth and an American tragedy. Theater J's season closer, T…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 1:49pm on June 20, 2012☆⚑

Reliving the start of AIDS crisis

Shrill. Didactic. Pedantic. Alarmist. The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's 1985 play detailing the beginnings of the HIV-AIDS epidemic, is all of those things. It's also a masterpiece, a compell…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 12:04pm on June 20, 2012☆⚑

The kings of 'frat-rap'

For hip-hop enthusiasts, two Jewish boys from an elite university are perhaps the last people they were expecting to crown as their kings of frat rap. Yet, if Timeflies' rapid-fire success i…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 12:45pm on June 13, 2012☆⚑

Tough to find this year's Jewish-themed films at Silverdocs

This year, the 10th for the popular annual documentary film festival Silverdocs, it takes a bit of sleuthing to find films with relevant Jewish thematic content. In past years, the American …

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:02am on June 13, 2012☆⚑

Art installation examines impulse to save and dispose

In a small, nondescript room tucked away on the ninth floor of an out-of-use office building in Crystal City, artist Rachel Farbiarz has tugged the ancient concept of genizah into the 21st c…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:55am on June 13, 2012☆⚑

Israeli-born cellist balances family, career

Inbal Segev is a working mom. But instead of a laptop or briefcase, she carries a cello. The instrument in question was made in 1673 by Francesco Rugeri. Her husband gave it to her as a wedd…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:56am on June 6, 2012☆⚑

Still crazy (but less so) after all these years

Recently, I spent an intense weekend with Richard Lewis.

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:40am on June 6, 2012☆⚑

Ancient Bible, ancient mystery

Matti Friedman, author of The Allepo Codex is a modern day Indiana Jones, in both his rugged looks and his deep love of ancient history. Just like the character in the movie, he stumbles int…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:08am on May 30, 2012☆⚑

Tile by tile, student by student

Had it only consisted of several bright colors and not every color in the rainbow with reflecting mirrors in between, dayenu.

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:15am on May 23, 2012☆⚑

Legend produces DC Jazz Festival

As a kid in Brooklyn, Charles Fishman wanted to be a Dodger when he grew up - a Brooklyn Dodger, of course. The call of the diamond, ball and glove distracted him from his piano studies, muc…

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 9:09am on May 23, 2012☆⚑

JDS grad's band plays Jewish Music Festival

When Dan Saks was a middle-schooler at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School back in the early 1990s, he wanted to grow up to be a rock star. But, he said, there was no formal music program at …

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:24am on May 16, 2012☆⚑

Eric Weiner's worldwide search for God

The voice was crystal clear, ethereal, uncompromising and unequivocal. It didn't mince words, and it even had a lilting Caribbean or West African accent.

SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:18am on May 16, 2012☆⚑