Category: Arts News

Karen Kosoglad stores memories of her former figure models, her Jewish immigrant-turned-printing-mogul-father and her loving mother, within layers of

Woody Allen once quipped that every time he listened to the music of Wagner, he got the urge to invade Poland. Woody isn’t alone. Many people ca

Musician Dan Reed may not be Jewish, but that didn’t stop him from spending nine months studying at a yeshiva while living in an ultra-Orthodox

Finding himself with a free hour in Washington, D.C. not too long ago, Max Mayer visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He boarded the elevator w

When the Idan Raichel Project came to Hillel at the UW four years ago, I was blown away — and I wasn’t alone. I hadn’t seen so many Israel

Working as a performance artist, it didn’t take Susannah Perlman long to discover she wasn’t the only nice Jewish girl trying to make a li

Nearly 200 guests filled the Museum of History and Industry’s McEachem Auditorium on June 14 to see the world premiere of Unsilenced, a 40-minut

When Elizabeth Kenny first read the one-woman play The Last Letter, she was drawn right away to the World War II-era story of a mother writing a lette

Music of Remembrance, the Seattle-based chamber music organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians and their art, always seems to bring S

At Home In Utopia is a movie based around an apartment complex. The 2008 documentary, directed by Michal Goldman, tells the story of a cooperative hou

For generations of American Jews, an innocent, unformed Dutch teenager personified the victims of the Holocaust. What might have been the repercussion

Strangers (Zarim) Directors: Guy Nattiv & Erez Tadmor Israel, 2007 Hebrew, Arabic & French w/subtitles A few years ago, an Israeli filmmaker in his 4

Circumcise Me Directors: David Blumenthal & Matthew Kalman United States, 2007 English & Yiddish w/subtitles Comedian Yisrael Campbell has acquired a

Temple B’nai Torah will wrap up its 10-week-long 2009/5769 Cultural Arts Series on April 12 with a performance by New York-based songstress Chav

Veteran Israeli director Avi Nesher is an uncommonly ambitious and fearless filmmaker. His latest film, Secrets (HaSadot), calmly broaches as many tab

Fake advertisements for futuristic products. Centerpieces made out of plastic water bottles. Frogs in a jar. These are just a few of the objects visit

All the books presented here are concerned either with Torah or Israel, or both. Rabbi Ian Pear might argue that one leads to the other, as happened t