Keeping The Faith On The Great Plains
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor Fargo, N.D. — The pioneer Jews who homesteaded on the flat, wind-whipped high plains at the turn of the last century came from foreign lands, beat back bone-rattling...
View ArticleThe Soul Of The Office
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor The last time I saw my father we were sitting together on a South Florida beach. It was the winter of 1982, a few weeks before he died, and perhaps sensing his days...
View ArticleA Jazz Man’s Roots Music
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor Of the elite jazz musicians working in New York, pianist Bruce Barth is probably the only one who can claim a klezmer pedigree.Barth, 46, who has emerged as one of...
View ArticleLittle Houses On The Prairie
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor "Mama, mama many worlds I've come since I first left home."- Grateful Dead, "Brokedown Palace"Helena, Mont. - Next to a person's love, a bard once wrote, the most...
View ArticleDowntown: A Tale Of Redemption
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor In a high-lonesome twang right out of the piney woods of the Ozarks, rock and roll Americanist Levon Helm sings of “a sorrow in the wind / blowin’ down the road I’ve...
View ArticleA Riff On Coexistence
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor Arnie Lawrence, a veteran alto saxophonist and influential jazz educator who moved to Israel in 1997 to found a jazz center teaching Jewish and Arab musicians, died...
View ArticleThe Mosque With The Jewish Star On Top
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor The makeshift mosque was at once sweet and sinister. As befit a creation of a couple of first-graders, it was a riot of colors and flags and self-portraits and...
View ArticleOn South Beach Florida's Jewish Past Is Present
by Robert Goldblum Managing Editor The elderly Jews are gone now, the ones who carried their Yiddish cadences and stories of the rag trade and the Old Country with them down to the tip of Miami...
View Article'A Web of Affection'
Robert Goldblum Managing Editor E.B. White, the lyrical New Yorker writer and children’s book author, knew a thing or two about heroes, especially the unsung kind. He knew the power of the small, yet...
View ArticleEndless Highway
Robert Goldblum Managing Editor “Away, I’m bound away, ‘Cross the wide Missouri.” — “Shenandoah,” American folk songread more
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