David Lehman looks at that amazing generation of songwriters who collectively turned out what we know as the 'American Song Book.' American, yes, but what gave their creations a Jewish identity?
1 commentsLa Scala's production of 'Aida' arrived in Israel on the wings of international success and reminded us that opera was once a glittering social event.
0 commentsIt is a pleasure to relive those days when all the world was against us and yet we prevailed
0 commentsIt would have gone on and on, but after an hour the former president started haranguing the journalists.
0 commentsWhat struck me at the Limmud conference was that I was witnessing a huge gathering of people for whom Jewishness is 'an issue'
0 commentsOne should not leave a suitcase unclaimed, I reasoned. Hath a suitcase no eyes? When you forsake it, does it not weep?
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