Shalom TV to show High Holiday services
Last High Holidays, Rabbi Mark Golub led the 800 people at his two Connecticut congregations in song and prayer. The services were the same as those in hundreds of shuls across the country, except for the fact that a few people were sitting in the balcony taping the services for national cable television. Full Story
CD Review
Klezwoods spins around the world
With his debut CD, “Klezwoods: Oy Yeah!,” Joe Kessler is carrying on two family traditions: spreading Jewish music and bringing people together.
Now based in Gloucester, Kessler toured the world with Atzilut: Concerts for Peace, an ensemble of Arab and Jewish musicians led by his father, cantor Jack Kessler. Full Story
Movie Maven
As US shut door, Mexico opened it
Daniel Goldberg’s 1995 documentary “A Kiss to this Land” could not be more timely, but perhaps not quite in the way he might suspect. The film is about Mexico and immigration, but it’s not about Mexican – legal or illegal – immigrants coming to the United States. It’s about Jews in the 1920s who left Europe and the Middle East and headed to Mexico. Full Story
Book Review
A young Rothschild ensnared in faerie land
“Extraordinary,” by Nancy Werlin.
Dial, 2010.
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ARTS
“THEY CALLED ME MAYER JULY” Through 9/26: “Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust,” by Mayer Kirshenblatt. At the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst. 413-256-4900. Full Story
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