Billy Joel
Will You Still Need Billy Joel When He’s 64?
The boy from Hicksville blows out the candles
Billy Joel Makes Dreams Come True
Or the dreams of one young piano-playing Billy Joel fanatic
In Defense of Sandler’s “Hallelujah”
The comic wasn’t butchering Leonard Cohen’s classic. He was rescuing it.
Voice of Peace
Elie Wiesel took to the 92Y stage this week for an evening of Yiddish standards, childhood reminiscences, and Borscht Belt shtick. Somehow it worked.
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.
