Culture

Local

A 'Magic' Premiere Fulfills Cheltenham Teen's Dying Wish

Arts

Opening Barnes’ Doors

Music

Musical Memorial to Prewar Book Burning

Film & Television

Baumbach in a New York State of Mind

Food

Another U.S.-Israel Connection: Barbecue!

Music

David Broza: This Concert Will Be Good

Film & Television

A Festive Feeling About Film Unspools Here

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Michael Elkin

The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is playing the video version of "I've Got a Secret." But don't look for Garry Moore as its star or the guests to be some innocuous-looking seniors whose part-time jobs are dismantling bombs. Instead, it's Da Bomb: "The Secrets," part of the film-fest's opening weekend, is one of Israel's more-explosive films of the past decade,...

Film & Television

Sixty for Israel 60

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Michael Elkin

It's all a matter of rock 'n' reel: Music and movies have been merry Meir Fenigstein's MO for so long, is it any wonder his life sounds like a movie musical? Funny you should say that, he says, savoring the irony that the script he wrote long ago about his years as a member of Poogy -- Israel's No. 1...

Books

All in the Name of Art

A once-busy critic resurfaces with a new image of himself

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Robert Leiter

In the 1960s and '70s, it seemed that writer and critic John Gruen was everywhere in terms of the art scene, whether the subject was music or painting or dance or architecture. He held several prominent reviewing positions at The New York Herald Tribune before its untimely demise in the late '60s and then hopped over to The New York...

Food

'Simple Pleasures' Drawn From Israel's 'New' Cuisine

Janna Gur's The Book of New Israeli Food is a cookbook, a photography collection and a history lesson. This culinary cultural survey, a bestseller in Israel, will satisfy your appetite and your curiosity. With recipes both light and sumptuous, most coupled with lush photography by Eilon Paz, just flipping through this book will make your mouth water. From soups to...

History & Nostalgia

Philly's Jewish Archives Center Set to Merge With Temple U. Next Year

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

After 36 years, the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center is getting ready to say goodbye. Well, sort of. "We're not closing, because that gives the idea that we're going under, never to be seen again," said president Carole Le Faivre-Rochester. "As a center that's true, but as an archive that's not true at all." Beginning early next year, the archives will...