Category: Arts News

By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent

Food Simply Southern With a Dash of Kosher Soul, from the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South (cloth, $34.99 plus shipping). The Je

By Penny Schwartz, JTA World News Service

BOSTON (JTA) — Rhyming verse, lively family scenes, a cute pig who eats kosher pickles — and yes, menorahs, latkes and the Maccabees — are featured in

"All I want are high heels, high heels," fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi once said. "If I was a girl, I’d wear a lot of high heels. High stilett

A classic Jewish tale of love and darkness, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk has been the crown jewel of Yiddish theater since its first performance by the

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews

Jewish lore has a rich history of the supernatural, from the clay golems whose creators bring them to life to dybbuks, spirits from the afterlife who

"The interesting thing about many short stories is that they are wonderful live performance texts," said Kurt Beattie, artistic director for Seattle&

Salanio’s imitation of Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice makes any modern theatergoer cringe: "I never heard a passion so co

Author Jonathan Tropper, whose bestselling This is Where I Leave You just came out in paperback, doesn’t try to be funny. But that didn’t

Genre-bending bands are nothing new. For decades The Clash fused punk with reggae. The Pogues have similarly drawn on punk rock energy to deliver thei

The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner , By Dina Porat; translated by Elizabeth Yuval (Stanford University Press, 2009). Abba Kovne

We all know about Gerard Schwarz, conductor. Lately, we’ve been hearing more and more about Gerard Schwarz, composer. Schwarz’ latest wor

Kinky Friedman first rose to fame in the early 1970s for his satirical country music act, which he performed with his band Kinky Friedman and The Texa

"There’s just something about music," says Michele Yanow, that puts people in touch with their roots. Yanow, a lifelong choral singer, successf

"There is no shortcut to certainty," says Gbenga Akinnagbe, in character as the solo actor who portrays the stories of 11 Seattle citizens in The Thi

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

Novelist Dani Shapiro examines her own life in her second memoir, Devotion (Harper, cloth, $24.99), her quest for religious and spiritual meaning in p