(New York Jewish Week) — In “The Calling,” a new miniseries streaming on Peacock, a Jewish NYPD detective fights crime and solves mysteries by letting his Jewishness lead the way.
Jeff Wilbusch plays Avraham Avraham, a detective whose Judaism is...
(JTA) — There’s a good chance that right now, Nathan Steuer is playing, or thinking about playing, Magic: The Gathering. The trading card game, which Steuer used to play with friends at Jewish summer camp, has become the 20-year-old Berkeley native’s...
DIANA BLETTER, Israel21c.org
• Published November 10, 2022
The Art Laboratory for Future Ecologies, an innovative eco-art center, will soon get under construction in Israel’s Arava Desert.
The future center’s founder, Galit Eilat, said the goal is teach people about sustainability and protecting natural...
By Seth Rogovoy, The Forward
• Published November 10, 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By Bono
Knopf, 577 pages, $34
Bono would like you to know who he sat with over the years.
“I am sitting on Harry Belafonte’s bed.”
“We’re sitting with Rupert Murdoch …”
“I was sitting in Renards...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 10, 2022
“Bibi: My Story” by Benjamin Netanyahu, Simon & Schuster, 724 pages, $35
Mark Twain’s famous response to the premature publication of his obituary — “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” accurately describes the political...
(JTA) — Two years ago, a poll on Twitter tried to settle once and for all how to refer to the corner of the social media platform where Jews conversed. “Jwitter” got two thirds of the 525 votes, with the rest falling to “Jtwitter.”
Whatever...
(New York Jewish Week) — Ella Joy Meir, the Brooklyn-based musician who leads the alt-pop group Iris Lune, did not expect to spend the first five months of the pandemic sequestered in her father’s home in Israel. She and her wife, journalist Mikhal...
DR. RICHARD LAZAROFF, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2022
Can you afford to send your child to camp next summer? Can you afford not to?
Winter is almost upon us. Most kids have moved most of their after-school activities into gymnasiums, indoor soccer parks or perhaps the living room with a musical instrument....
This piece contains spoilers.
(JTA) – At the fancy private school where he has just started his first day, Jewish sixth-grader Paul Graff (Banks Repata) is asked by a major donor what his last name means. Sheepishly, he admits that it was shortened...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published November 8, 2022
Peacock’s “The Calling” begins with a man in a hotdog suit booked for murder and a detective saying a Hebrew prayer over a victim’s body. It’s not your normal prime-time procedural and the detective is no ordinary policeman.
NYPD detective...
“The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive” is a methodically researched and harrowing book about Otto von Wachter, a high-ranking SS member and one-time governor of Krakow.
(New York Jewish Week) — After a smash-hit run interrupted by COVID, “Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish” is returning next week for a seven-week run at Manhattan’s New World Stages.
For many in the cast, Jewish or not, returning to “Fiddler”...
