Temple Sinai Cantor Joel Colman joined “Steppin’ Out” host Peggy Scott Laborde as a guest on the arts and entertainment show seen weekly over WYES-TV, Channel 12 on May 30.
Colman, whose magnificent baritone voice and hulking frame have been...
By ALAN SMASON, New Orleans Performing Arts Examiner (Examiner.com)
When “Bent” premiered in London’s West End in 1979 with Ian McKellan and in 1980 on Broadway with Richard Gere, hardly anyone knew about the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi...
(JTA) — “What is being done to silence this man?” an American rabbi asked in a 1963 letter to the Anti-Defamation League. He was talking about the novelist Philip Roth, whose early novels and short stories cast...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — At a Paris café after the war, a young publisher is quickly falling in love with an adorable Jewish author he just met as she discusses her still-unpublished book.
By ALAN SMASON, New Orleans Performing Arts Examiner
While not every religious service becomes a religious experience, the annual Jazz Fest Shabbat at Touro Synagogue comes close to firing on all cylinders. The combination of jazz,
(JNS.org) — On April 24, audiences around the country had the chance to feel what it is like to be William Shatner, the Jewish actor best known for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk on “Star...
HOLLYWOOD, FL. (JTA) — A risque ad featuring Bar Refaeli in bed with a purple, mustachioed Muppet has been banned from running before 10 p.m. in the holy land, Walla!, Israel news website reports. Per a governmental...
