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With a bare midriff and gyrating hips, Sarah Aroeste performs jazz and rock blended into favorites from her Sephardic repertoire: songs like "Hija Mia" (The One I Want) and "Yo M’enamori" (Moon Trick). "I’m not trying to promote sexy visions," Aroeste, a classically trained vocalist, said. "But the music is incredibly romantic and intoxicating." Romantic […]
Revered by three major faiths as the first man to recognize and worship one God, the prophet Abraham remains an enigmatic historic figure, painted in few-but-broad strokes in the Torah, described in hagiographic terms in subsequent depictions. The subject of dispute, like many biblical characters, among academic scholars (Did he actually exist?) Abraham is treated […]
Next week, television viewers will have a chance to spend a few revealing hours with Adolph Hitler. "Hitler: The Rise of Evil," the two-part miniseries that airs May 18 and 20 on CBS, covers biographical territory well-known to fans of the History Channel, the cable network awash in Hitler-centric documentaries. But for audiences with limited […]