(RNS) — Ask any rabbi, and they will tell you that inadvertently omitting someone from a list of people who have died is a bad faux pas. That is what happened at the Academy Awards “in memoriam ...

The Yiddish word “beshert,” best translated in English as a kind of destiny or that something was meant to be, can be used many different ways. It’s often used in reference to one’s soulmate, the ...

Near the end of San Diego Musical Theatre’s touching and lavishly cast production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the actor playing the matchmaker Yente delivers her final line directly to the audience ...

As director Joe Calarco put it to the press night audience at Signature Theatre’s Fiddler on the Roof, he had a simple pitch for what would become his twentieth Signature production. For his Fiddler, ...