Does Peter Marks Have Castration Anxiety?

We’re actually starting to worry a little bit about Peter Marks. Granted, there were some hard feelings back in May when he savaged Theater J’s production of David In Shadow and Light. His review plus the Post Weekend Section’s gratuitous pile-on in their Should You Go? feature effectively killed the show (to be fair, along [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

Hot Times in The City Summer Day Camp
Session II Begins Monday, June 30
Spots still available in Camp Skate, JKids and for CITs (we’ll even pro-rate if you’re reading this after Monday 6/30)
Is your kid spending the summer at Camp XBox? Get them off the couch and into the best urban camp in the country.
The Annual [...]

Buy Our Fake Oranges

Looking for that perfect something for the person who has everything? How about 1000 fake oranges, complete with little, green “Jaffa” stickers on them?
As part of the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery’s exhibit L(a)ttitudes, Avner Bar Hama created a map of Israel entirely out of these oranges. Now that the exhibit is over, they need a [...]

Differing (L)attitudes–Chicago and DC

It was both interesting and sad to see our worst fears for this past spring’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery exhibition (L) attitudes, a show about mapping Israel/Palestine, realized in a similar exhibition at Chicago’s Spertus Museum which closed their exhibit Imaginary Coordinates early. What never happened in DC came to pass in Chicago: a controversial [...]

What Are We Doing This Weekend? Four Seasons Lodge

Silverdocs always has a bunch of good Jewish-themed films and this year is no exception. One of the films we’re excited to see is Four Seasons Lodge, about a group of Holocaust survivors who meet annually at the Catskills bungalow colony that gives the documentary its name. It is screening this Sunday at 5:30 pm– [...]

On Being a Jewish Artist

Posting this piece that was originally published in the Washington DCJCC’s Center in the City June edition. Even though the Music Festival is half-over, I thought it was still apt.

Artists sometimes run away from the label of “Jewish” because it can be seen as limiting in much the same way that other hyphenates can [...]

Rhythm and Ruth

The timing of Friday’s free children’s program, Rhythm and Roots: The Afro-Semitic Experience could not be more perfect. This year’s Washington Jewish Music Festival occurs immediately before the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which begins Sunday evening, June 8.
 
Rhythm and Roots explores the Jewish and African diasporas through interactive music-making. On Shavuot, we read the Book [...]

If You’re Coming to See Regina Spektor or Anything Else at Israel@60 on the National Mall

Then stop by the Washington DCJCC’s Israeli Culture Pavillion (tent #3 on your map). The schedule of events includes:
12:15–Israeli Literature in Translation (read by Joel Snyder)

“At The Outset of the Day” by S.Y. Agnon
“An Autobiographical Note” by Amos Oz
excerpt from “The Lover” by A.B. Yehoshua

12:45–Short Films from the Best of the Sam Spiegel Film School [...]

WJMF Sound Byte: Soulico Crew

The Washington Jewish Music Festival kick-off parties have a tremendous track record for picking hot up-and-coming artists, setting them in a cool DC club and then opening the doors for a slammin’ night of music and dancing. In the past the Kick-Off party has featured the likes of Y-Love, Yuri Lane and dj handler. Keeping [...]

WJMF Sound Byte: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb–How Beautiful You Are

Whenever you set out to compose and perform a song cycle set to “the erotic Biblical love poem of Song of Songs,” you better bring a voice equipped for the task. It is clear from a even a quick listen that Ayelet Rose Gottlieb has the chops to pull off such an endeavor when she performs [...]