Category: Arts News

The poetry of teenaged Jewish boys imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp will be given new life in the oratorio Vedem, by composer Lori Laitma

Hazzan Isaac Azose’s CD, Ladino Reflections, took just six months to produce, but it took 20 years to dream. His double-disc collection of Ladin

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Public Broadcasting Service will offer U.S. television viewers a concentrated history lesson during Holocaust Remembrance Week

When JDub Records sent us its first foray into children’s music, an album called Let’s Go Coconuts! by a band called The Macaroons, we kne

In the world of women, shoes can change everything. Women lurk among department store shoe racks, touching, trying, fantasizing. This phenomenon is la

Who ever heard of Hank Greenspun? Unless you grew up in Las Vegas sometime between the ‘50s and ‘70s, or paid close attention to the machi

Allow me, if you will, to illuminate for you two unwavering cinematic truths. First, in any film, if an adorable animal appears in the first act — esp

It might be a few hours after you leave the theater before it hits you how spiritual a film Seven Minutes in Heaven is. Galit (Reymond Amsellem) survi

Even by the high standards set by Israeli films in the last few years, Ajami is a knockout. A crackling urban drama shot with unblinking realism and s

For their first time out, Israeli’s Ethiopian community has produced a film that enters their adopted country’s pantheon of moviemaking. T

Seven years ago, Israeli musician Idan Raichel never thought he’d be touring the world and meeting some of the planet’s greatest musicians

Ruthlessly and riotously, A Matter of Size (Sipur Gadol) proves once and for all that Israel is the world’s capital of tough love. Four seriousl

French-Jewish writer-director Karin Albou assumed that the Algerian side of her family had been untouched by World War II. Then she came across the le

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to note the position of the former Indian ambassador to Israel. When the review committee for the S

[Note: This article has been corrected to properly name Angella Nazarian’s husband.] When Jewish Iranian Angella Nazarian fled the violent revo