Not too Jewish for England, or Japan.

Two old-new musicals.

“Models of humor, elegance, and compassion.”

His life story “is a testament to how everything was and is possible in America.”

How Jewish was the creator of the Great American Songbook?

The Band’s Visit.

Our shtetl.

Craving transcendent purpose.

By the songwriters behind Fiddler on the Roof.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, bowing to anti-Semitic intimidation, has canceled an Israeli production. The reaction of the city’s cultural elite? Nary a shrug. 

In the musical Soul Doctor, Shlomo Carlebach is a rabbi with a cause, but the cause is as opaque as the dialogue is clanking and. . .