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Classics Fraternity Keeps on Chugging
Allan Daskal
Recently, the Yeshiva chapter of Eta Sigma Phi held its annual meeting at the home of Professor Louis Feldman. Eta Sigma Phi, a national fraternity with many chapters in various universities throughout the country, is devoted to the study of classical literature in the original Greek or Latin.....
Play Review: Shakespeare (Abridged)
Avraham R.C. Pittleman
In the Off-Broadway comedy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), playing at The Century Center for the Performing Arts, director Jeremy Dobrish has tried to compress every one of Shakespeare's plays into an energetic hour and a half....
Music Review: Neshama Carlebach's Ani Shelach
Steven I. Weiss
"Songs written by Shlomo Carlebach" is a credit that appears far too often on CD labels these days, joining the spare credits of the few other major Jewish songwriters as fodder for endless reworkings by Jewish musicians past and present. I've always had a major gripe with most popular Jewish music, in that its practitioners refuse to engage in serious lyrical development, hiding behind the premise that there can be no lyric greater than that produced in the texts of our heritage....
Music Review: Phantom Planet, The Guest
Steven I. Weiss
Phantom Planet has benefited from disproportionate media attention over the past few years, due primarily to the fact that their drummer, Jason Schwartzman, is a movie star. In a surprising twist, Phantom Planet, with their new album, The Guest, have lived up to the fanfare....
Creative Writing: Contradiction
Keren Sussman
ÊVulnerable viscera revealed yet,
he stands proud, intact.....