in a dark blue night, a new song cycle by composer Alex Weiser, will receive its digital premiere today at sunset in New York City, 4:43 p.m. A group of Jewish ...

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...

NEW YORK — There’s a certain magic to fate that makes its machinations, before they’re realized, seem fanciful and naive. Sometimes, it’s tiny occurrences of kismet. Sometimes, the wheels turning are ...

Still from State of the Jews. Photo courtesy of Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser. Five years ago, when librettist Ben Kaplan and composer Alex Weiser began discussing the idea of creating an opera about ...

Let’s be honest, so am I. By Tejal Rao While working on this article, Tejal Rao cut into a dozen cantaloupes and muskmelons. Alex Weiser popped a single, half-squashed, dark Persian mulberry into his ...

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