Arts / Letters

Jewish theater group plans staged reading

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:51 -0700

Portland’s Jewish Theatre Collaborative will present a staged reading Sept. 14 at Portland State University of David Bezmozgis’ short story “Roman Berman, Massage Therapist” as part of the Institute for Judaic Studies’ three-day 25th anniversary celebration. read more »

Israeli folk dance legend Yoav Ashriel due here

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:10:40 -0700

Israeli folk dance legend Yoav Ashriel—who choreographed such classic dances as Erev Ba, Hora Nirkoda, Hora Medura Ba’aviv and Layla Layla—will teach some of his famed dances Sept. 14 at the weekly Israeli folk dance held at the Fulton Community Center, 68 SW Miles St. read more »

Miram Feder back on stage at Hipbone

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:02 -0700

Miriam Feder will bring her one-woman show, “BIG WORDS: A kaleidoscope of follies enticing the heart and teasing the mind,” to Portland’s HipBone Studiofor two weekends:Sept. 19, 20, 26 and 27. read more »

‘Constantine’s Sword’ cuts to heart of anti-Semitism

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:02 -0700

Late in Oren Jacoby’s documentary “Constantine’s Sword,” Rome-based Rev. John Pawlikowski declares to author and former priest James Carroll, “If you want to make religion a constructive force in society, religions must begin with an honest admission of those moments when they haven’t been a constructive force." read more »

Cookbook offers the many tastes of Israel

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:58:13 -0700

In this stunning new work that is at once a coffee-table book to browse and a complete cookbook, Janna Gur brings us the sumptuous color, variety and history of today’s Israeli cuisine, beautifully illustrated by Eilon Paz, a photographer who is intimate with the local scene. read more »

Dry and colorful, Israeli wines come of age

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:56:27 -0700

RAMAT RAZIEL, Israel (JTA)—It's harvest time at the Domaine Du Castel winery. Crates of small, plump grapes the color of blueberries are being loaded into a machine that removes them from their stems and pumps them through plastic piping into a towering, silver-colored vat. read more »