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The late Lee Berk, who passed away unexpectedly on Oct. 21, 2023, dedicated his entire career to music and music education. Wherever he and his wife, Susan, settled — Boston,

Visitors to the up-and-coming Hilton Family Holocaust Education Center will begin their roughly 90-minute tour in light, move to darkness and end up back in the light. The intention behind

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Steven Spielberg warned that “the machinery of extremism is being used on college campuses” and lamented those killed in Israel and Gaza while being honored for

(JTA) — When Mel Brooks was filming “The Producers,” he recalled an executive approaching him and saying, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.”

With more than 500 productions under his belt, M. Seth Reines will direct Disney’s “Beauty and The Beast Live in Concert” at the Chandler Center for the Arts on March

In mid-January, Esther Shapera was surprised and delighted to discover that a concert of Eastern European klezmer music, thought lost for nearly a century, would be performed at Beth El

Yaakov (Koby) Oranski, an Israeli software engineer consultant who has lived in the United States for two decades, the last year in Arizona, first pitched the idea of a poetry

(JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin from Berlin to share that, as part of

Whether you are a classical music connoisseur or your only exposure to the genre is recognizing the opening bars of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Jeffrey Siegel’s “Keyboard Conversations” has something

Laura Arnold Leibman, a historian at Reed College in Oregon, often uses objects — a cup, a photograph, even a gravestone — as an entry point to understanding the lives