The brilliant French graphic novelist Joann Sfar has released a second Jewish-oriented book, “Klezmer: Book 1: Tales of the Wild East”. (You may remember his
So, here’s my current excuse for not posting for ages:
On Wednesday last week, the Jewish Women’s Archive launched an exciting (to me as a staffmember, especially) new project called “Katrina’s Jewish Voices.” The project lets us dive into something we call “online collecting” – the ability of individual people to participate in an exhibit by contributing their own images, documents, thoughts, media files, etc. It also lets viewers of the exhibit, as well as participants, do something that is increasingly common elsewhere in the web world: tag items, as well as to store favorites onsite.
When Jane Jacobs passed away a couple of weeks ago, I was among the many people who assumed that she was Jewish. I had even
For the last few years I have been aware of a group of people doing some very interesting work putting American Jewish Women’s stories on
I am sorry to report on the death of Jane Jacobs, a woman whose influence on my own life was profound, but not nearly so
Here’s the backstory. George Eliot is friends with/admires Benjamin Disraeli, the British politician of Jewish descent who is the prime minister who buys the Suez
So, tomorrow night the New York Jewish Music and Heritage Fest and Heeb Magazine will cosponsor something they are calling “1st Annual Jewish Music Awards”.
Leslie Bunder, who already does a radio show in the UK and is a major force behind “somethingjewish.com” announces to the Jewish-Music list: If anyone