Wednesday, June 12, 2013
George Joseph did not have an easy childhood. Like nearly all Jews in Transylvania, Romania during the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Josephs faced discrimination, violence and oppression. Beatings, fe…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:05AMFifty years ago, a bittersweet novelty song about a boy at summer camp hit the airwaves and caught fire across the globe. Just two weeks after its release, "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" had s…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:59AM"It's not enough to draw figures and shapes," the art professor admonishes a student, in The Hampton Years, Theater J's world-premiere production, "if you can't put your body and soul into i…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:58AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Princesses: Long Island, the new reality show on Bravo, appears to be as bad for the Jews as we had feared.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 12:16PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
Shira Lanyi didn't know what to expect the day in 2009 when she walked into a rehearsal with Ma Cong, a new choreographer for the Richmond Ballet. The then 21-year-old young dancer, who atte…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:56AMBlowin' into town from June 5 through June 16, the annual DC Jazz Festival celebrates all things jazz with performers like Paquito D'Rivera, the Brubeck Brothers Quartet and the Brass-A-Holi…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:52AMDuring her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founding member of Ms. Magazine, author and social justice activist, became intrigued by her friends' and family's diverse r…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:50AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
In their new book, FDR and the Jews ($29.95, Harvard), Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, both professors in American University's history department, utilize hundreds of new sources an…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:19AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Shira Mendelman is an 18-year-old with a decision to make. We first see her in the dairy section of a supermarket, where she's covertly watching a prospective bridegroom.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:03AMShe is the woman who wakes up in the morning with plans to conquer what terrifies her. She is the woman who is not intimidated by the sexy mom on the playground or the buxom co-worker who al…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:02AMRamon Tasat wants to teach the world to sing. The Buenos Aires-born cantor believes singing is everyone's birthright, even the guy whose high school music teacher told him he could join the …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:52AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Ben Katchor pondered the topic of sardine cans during his appearance at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in the District last week. Katchor, creator of graphic books including Julius Knipl, Real…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 02:56PMThe upcoming marriage of Cantor Rochelle Helzner's daughter served as inspiration for Under the Chuppah: The Music of Marriage. The program, to be held on Sunday, May 19 at Rockville's Tikva…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 02:53PMDon't expect a mystical retelling of the legend of 16th-century Rabbi Judah Loew and the infamous protector of the Jews he created out of clay in Taffety Punk Theatre Company's latest produc…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 02:49PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
"I think Hank Greenberg was the great American hero," Washington filmmaker Aviva Kempner says. "What he did on Yom Kippur. What he faced. He was our Jackie Robinson."
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 12:25PM"Ideas are a strange thing. They pop up in the weirdest places at the strangest times," Israeli-born, New York-based choreographer Zvi Gotheiner said last month about the inspiration for his…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:36AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Collage Dance Ensemble aims to build bridges through dance and music. The Boston-based dance troupe, founded by Ahmet Luleci, a native of Turkey, is as likely to dance a chasidic-style folk …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 02:25PMThe 14th annual Washington Jewish Music Festival is back and ready to bring a diverse mix of Jewish musical styles to the D.C. metro area. Sponsored by the Howard and Geraldine Polinge…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:15AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
The 13th-annual Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival begins this evening with a dinner program and screening of Hava Nagila: The Movie at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia i…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:01AMAn abstract angular frame of a house containing a few nearly empty rooms is an appropriate space in which to wrestle with shadows - both those thrown into relief by lighting designer Colin K…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:32AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
With as much intrigue backstage as onstage, The Last Five Years returns to the region in a smart, attractive production at Arlington's Signature Theatre. The work, directed by D.C.'s Aaron P…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:54AMThe Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) was packed on Thursday of last week for the Washington, D.C., premiere of 50 Children: The Res…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:51AMWalls talk, people float and monsters rise from beneath the floorboards in Lauren Yee's unabashedly fantastical comedic drama A Man, His Wife, and His Hat.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:47AMWho 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…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 11:44AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:49AMThere 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…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:47AMMonday, March 25, 2013
MONTCLAIR, N.J. - In the space of a single painting, Siona Benjamin juxtaposes feminism, Indian mythology and Jewish imagery.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:38AMBarely a minute into Philip Roth: Unmasked, an "American Masters" salute occasioned by the novelist's 80th birthday, he makes a familiar, albeit annoying, assertion.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:36AM 
