Arts & Culture
The renaissance continues for Swampscott’s Denbo with new TV comedy
SWAMPSCOTT – It’s not often you see a nice Jewish girl from Swampscott rolling around in the mud, impersonating the tavern wench of a 16th century English village. Jamie Denbo, a veteran actress and...
Read moreSex-Ed and Snipers: The untold story of Dr. Ruth
Conjure up a four-foot-seven-inch dynamo who once served in Israel’s Hagana (Defense Force). Add a back story involving Kindertransport. Complete the portrait with pioneering sex education in print, on the air and on television....
Read moreA play about a play many Jews found ‘Indecent’
“The God of Vengeance” (“Der Got Fun Fekome” in Yiddish) has been provoking both the Jewish community and audiences around the world since its first staging in Germany in 1907. Polish-born Sholem Asch’s envelope-pushing...
Read moreRevival of ‘Caroline, or Change’ hums with lessons of race and understanding
Tony Kushner spent his childhood in Lake Charles, La., with African-American maid Maudi Lee Davis. Not surprisingly, this gifted New York Jewish writer (“Angels in America”) set his most autobiographical work – the Tony...
Read moreStellar ‘The Return’ marks Israeli Stage’s final production
“I think I may have done something wrong,” the Jewish Israeli character known as Her says to the Palestinian Israeli character known as Him. “I want to understand and make it right.” “The Return,”...
Read more‘Searching for Lottie’ brings children on a journey of hope
An old black and white photograph of a young Viennese girl with a beaming smile hung in Susan L. Ross’s childhood home in Auburn, Maine. Ross’s middle name – Lottie – was given to...
Read moreMerrimack Valley Jewish Federation holds Jewish Film Fest
ANDOVER – The Merrimack Valley Jewish Federation will hold its annual Jewish Film Festival over three days in various locations, beginning Saturday, May 18, and ending on Monday, May 20. The festival will feature four...
Read morePastries for Pesach
SWAMPSCOTT – Sara Winer stood in her recently redecorated kitchen emanating the serene aura of a person who is in the right place at the right time. “My kitchen is my happy place,” she said...
Read moreA Haggadah with action and adventure you won’t put down
Each year at Passover, we are reminded that even though the original story is generations old, we are supposed to engage it as if we were the slaves who escaped from Egypt. A plainly worded...
Read moreSo many memories; so many Seders; so many people no longer with us
Whether you call it Passover or Pesach, you don’t need radar to know when the holiday is on its way. Temples begin sending out flyers for their annual Seder and if you’re fortunate, you start...
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