Volume 67, Issue 4

Hard Candy That Just Won’t Go Bad
by Josh R. Becker

“On certain Sundays in November, when the weather bothers me, I empty drawers of other summers, where my shadows used to be…,” belts out Jewish vocalist Adam Duritz from under his dreads, at the start of his band’s new album, Hard Candy. This Baltimorean Berkeley graduate “just wants to have a good time,” and did, while writing this fourth studio album of his band, the Counting Crows. This great album has something for everyone, and, whether you’ve heard these guys before or not, Hard Candy, produced for the first time by Steve Lillywhite (DMB, Guster), is by far the band’s most optimistic and entertaining album, with fast, up-beat songs that are especially good for the road...

Table Tips
by Jessica Russak

Deli Kasbah
West 85^th between Broadway and Westend
Flaishig

 I’d like to go over some simple concepts. Lots of meat equals lots of good eatin’. Large portions, great chicken soup, and oversized appetizers and sides are the formula for success. Throw in a muted videotape of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and you’ve got a great Kosher grille...

There Is No Such Thing As Art: And It Is A Good Thing Too! 
Or Tobi Kahn’s Conundrum of “Reductive Realism”
By Menachem Wecker 

After a successful, impressive career dating back to the prehistoric era, Art died in the mid-twentieth century. Not only did it die, it was murdered – assassinated by man and his politics...

Yeshiva Hosts International Historical Conference on Italian Jewry and the Holocaust
by Ruben Seth Fogel

From October 6-8, the Yeshiva community hosted a conference entitled “The Jews of Italy Under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922–1945.” The conference, cosponsored by the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Chair in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies, featured more than twenty internationally renowned scholars in this particular area.. 

To Chaos From Quandary
by Shmuel Honig

The gentle yet brilliant sun
Imbues the new house
With powerful, radiant glory...

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