Sometimes, the best things happen serendipitously—or rather, providentially. It’s 2019 and I’m in North London, just prior to my departure home. My friend advises me

When Elan Ganeles, a dual American Israeli citizen, and a brilliant graduate of Columbia University, was murdered on February 27, the story figured prominently in

It’s Sunday, September 18, and a watershed event at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. The Center’s Web site motto? “…where the community connects

I sit, spellbound, in the small, dimly lit West Side theater where three blonde uber-Aryan, thoroughly indoctrinated teen girls vacillate emotionally between anxiety, frustration, giddiness,

Michael Takiff is a quintessential Renaissance man—honors Yale graduate, standup comic, classical singer, presidential biographer and oral historian, whose true passion is acting. Despite pre-show

Prepare yourself for 90 minutes of unrelenting, side-splitting laughter. Ashley Blaker may be slight of build, but he is a giant in terms of his

Kristallnacht, on November 10, marked the beginning of Hitler’s unchecked rampage of genocide throughout Europe, and the near decimation of its Jewry. The staggering nature

Herman Wouk passed on May 17, of this year, just a few days before his 104th birthday. A Pulitzer Prize winner (“The Caine Mutiny,” 1951)

“The Lehman Trilogy” closed at the Park Avenue Armory on April 20. This acclaimed European play by Stefano Massini, a renowned Italian educated in a