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Leyna Krow Assistant Editor, JTNews The routine of going out for Chinese food and a movie on Christmas Eve is so ubiquitous among Jews that it seems

Not one of the many American movies about the Iraq War has been made by a former soldier — until now. The Israeli-born, U.S.-based writer-director Ore

The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses by Stephen H. Norwood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

On the Shabbat before Simchat Torah, at the weekly Torah study at North Seattle’s Temple Beth Am, Rabbi Beth Singer asked regular participants t

Renowned Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has broken through as an international sensation in part because of her album Mano Suave, which is sung largely in

What would happen if 6 million Jews were invited to go back to Germany? That is what playwright Israel Horowitz asks in Lebensraum. Seattle will get t

On the eve of the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, Music of Remembrance will begin its 12th season with a concert that commemorates Jewish acts of h

A Serious Man, the most Jewish and the most personal film in the Coen Brothers’ 25-year career, is pitched squarely between the musical magnetic

It’s been nearly eight years since Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Pakistan. In that time, his family

The easygoing matriarch of a fictional Jewish family, Molly Goldberg was simultaneously the salt of the earth and doggedly Herculean. But her gently i

Two guys whose careers are based entirely around the neuroses of Jewish families are about to hit it big. Sam Wolfson and Bryan Fogel, creators and st

After almost a decade, singer, songwriter, musician and choreographer Daniel Alpern has returned to Mercer Island to revitalize the Stroum JCC’s

Explaining Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Days of Awe, to children is both difficult and simple. Difficult, because deeper levels of spiritual unde

Generations is an across-the-world e-mail conversation between 30-something writer Masada Siegel and 70-something author Stefanie Zweig. From: Masada

We are lucky to live in a time and in a society that expects each of us to fill at least some of the limitless promise with which we are born, whether

It’s a fool’s errand to criticize Quentin Tarantino for historical inaccuracy or chronic amorality. Everybody knows his movies are inspire