An expanded and reworked new production of the recent Toronto Fringe festival hit, My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, begins Nov. 7 at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto. [read more]

At the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, he displayed thousands of items reflecting the daily lives of Jews around the world. Another museum highlights the Jewish pioneers of the American West. Seymour Fromer, who built one of the country's largest collections of Judaica with little money but enormous drive to preserve the history of Jews, especially those who helped settle the American West ... [read more]

LEIPZIG, Germany (JTA) -- At age 12, Pasha Segal arrived in Braunschweig, Germany from Ukraine knowing he was Jewish but lacking any further understanding of what that meant. [read more]

Ruth Abrams is managing editor of InterfaithFamily.com , a nonprofit that provides resources for interfaith families exploring Jewish life. The Beachwood High School graduate talked to the CJN about welcoming non-Jewish partners and how their inclusion can strengthen the Jewish community. [read more]

Dreamgirls Begins Previews at the Apollo Theatre Nov. 7 Dreamgirls , the 1981 Motown musical about a girl group on the rise to stardom, returns to New York in a newly-imagined production (with new songs), bowing at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. The Dreams will take to the road after NYC. [read more]

Dreamgirls , the 1981 Motown musical about a girl group on the rise to stardom, returns to New York in a newly-imagined production (with new songs), bowing at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. The Dreams will take to the road after NYC. [read more]

Also reviewed: 'Looking for Palladin'; 'The Wedding Song'; 'Victory Day'; 'Yes Men Save the World.' Although "Died Young, Stayed Pretty," a documentary about the underground rock poster movement, begins with a freewheeling array of diverting poster graphics and provocative artist interviews, it soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all. In fact, by the movie ... [read more]

Don't become a bridezilla and let the specs of a wedding take over the relationship. [read more]

For many years, real estate developers tried to get Marjorie Petry to sell her property. One even brought her flowers to butter her up. The calls didn’t stop even after she moved into a nursing home. “No,” she always told them politely. A preacher’s wife, Sunday school teacher and devout Christian, Petry had other plans for her family homestead — 21 acres of prime real estate along I-77. [read more]

Caterer Carl Jones brought a piece of West Tennessee with him when he traveled to New York and New Jersey last month to make a fruit centerpiece for the wedding reception of Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka. [read more]