All the hot stuff from Broadway to MOMA
It probably started on those long car rides to the Canadian Rockies. “We would go every Sunday, and my mother would sing ‘Rumenia, Rumenia’ and songs like that,” recalls Theresa Tova, who will play two free concerts in the New York area this week. Eventually, Tova would sing along. She discovered that she had a […]
Even books with footnotes can make for great summer reading. For those who prefer their late summer fare more substantial than breezy novels and suspense fiction, many new works of nonfiction offer compelling reading. Some are inspirational, looking toward the month of Elul with its contemplative mood beginning the process of teshuvah; some break down […]
Though her music has long been part of worship services at Reform synagogues and she has been embraced by camp song leaders, Debbie Friedman has often felt disdained by many of the movement’s more “serious” music mavens, like the cantors. That, however, has changed now that she has the official heksher of the movement’s most […]