Currently Browsing: December 2010
Thanks to KAM Isaiah Israel‘s Kehillah Committee (Kate Berezutskaya, Matt Cramer & Nancy Fritz) for coordinating our congregation’s second annual “Christmas at the Movies.” Like last year, our festivities centered around a Chinese food feast, but this year we did TWO screenings: one before the buffet and one after. Huge thanks also to writer/director Lynn Roth […]
Two wonderful films are now playing on The Jewish Channel (On Demand). The first is My Grandfather’s House. The second is The Fire Within. I continue to be impressed by the wonderful content now available on The Jewish Channel. Well worth the subscription fee! Click HERE to read my review of My Grandfather’s House. Click HERE […]
From Dec ’10 Spotlight: Fall festivals are over. Many special guests have come and gone. Now it’s time to replenish our shelves before the winter snows begin. ART BOOKS At Navy Pier, I heard Christa C. Mayer Thurman of the Art Institute of Chicago give a lecture hosted by the 17th annual SOFA Fair (Sculpture, […]
From Dec ’10 Spotlight: Fall festivals are over. Many special guests have come and gone. Now it’s time to replenish our shelves before the winter snows begin. ART BOOKS At Harold Washington Library Center, I heard Judy Chicago lecture on her new book Frida Kahlo: Face to Face. Chicago described how she and collaborator Frances […]
From Dec ’10 Spotlight: Fall festivals are over. Many special guests have come and gone. Now it’s time to replenish our shelves before the winter snows begin. MORE BOOKS Frances Parker High School hosted Doug Peck for The Music of Sondheim’s Follies in their newly upgraded auditorium. After hearing all the great Chicago voices personally assembled […]
From Dec ’10 Spotlight: Fall festivals are over. Many special guests have come and gone. Now it’s time to replenish our shelves before the winter snows begin. MORE BOOKS Back at Harold Washington Library Center, Rebecca Goldstein analyzed the famous philosophical conundrum called “The Mind-Body Problem.” During the Q&A, Goldstein quoted William James (From Pragmatism: “The […]
From Dec ’10 Spotlight: Fall festivals are over. Many special guests have come and gone. Now it’s time to replenish our shelves before the winter snows begin. TZIVI’S CD COLLECTION Then back to Frances Parker High School, where University of Chicago ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman stunned our Chicago Humanities Festival audience with his poignant meditation on […]
From Dec ’10 Spotlight Tzivi’s DVD Collection: A Film Unfinished, to which I gave a half-hearted review back in October, is emerging now as a candidate for a 2011 Oscar in the Best Documentary category, so I watched it again, only to find my concerns increase. A Film Unfinished claims to tell us things we didn’t […]
The Gene Siskel Film Center (State & Randolph) will show Daniel Burman’s new film Dos Hermanos (Brother & Sister) on Sat 1/15/11 & Weds 1/19/11 as part of their Ahora: Latin American Cinema Now series. Dos Hermanos won a Silver Hugo at the 2010 Chicago International Film Festival & is highly recommended. Click HERE to […]
The film version of Leon Uris’ epic novel Exodus premiered in New York on December 15, 1960. Fifty years later, Exodus still influences current debates as evident in two recently published books, biographer Ira Nadel’s Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, and pollster James Zogby’s Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and […]