Category: Arts News

It may seem like Barry Manilow has come a long way from his roots. Born Barry Pincus in 1943 to a Jewish family, Manilow was raised by his mother and

Marc Revenson grew up around music but always took it for granted. "For starters, I grew up around grandparents who had a real passion for Yiddish,"

Stereotypes may be in the eye of the beholder. At least, that just might be the case in how a character in the French animated film Azur and Asmar, wh

It’s been more than three decades since Golda Meir died. She was a giant on the world stage in her time. Starting life in Kiev, she made her way

The action-packed World War II drama Defiance is a smart, satisfying chunk of pulp nonfiction that, while totally accessible to a wide audience, will

Jorge Liderman: Aires de Sepharad: 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar www.albanyrecords.com I rushed to recommend this graceful recording to the

There are any number of ways, from exploitation to trivialization to stultifying pretension, to bungle a film about the Holocaust and its repercussion

Diana Brement JTNews Columnist Three different family stories spanning centuries and continents give us a personal lens with which to look at Jewish

One thing that can be said about Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, considered by many to be the father of the Modern Orthodox movement, is that his legacy is

Seattle choreographer Donald Byrd confronts the Israeli/Palestinian struggle in A Chekhovian Resolution, which debuts November 21 and 22 at the Moore

Poet, author, professor, and former Microsoft Internet guru Emily Warn has come home to Seattle. She brings with her a new book, Shadow Architect

Michael Fox Special to JTNews God’s existence and his responsibilities to the chosen people are abstract concepts to some people. For others, f

Malya Muth Special to JTNews In the classic 1927 silent movie The Golem: How He Came into the World, Paul Wegener, the filmmaker and actor in the tit

Sophisticated classical and jazz guitars will combine with a generations-old folk music tradition in a program featuring Israeli classical guitarist L

What’s the most Jewish musical instrument? Maybe it’s the cello. Much like the human voice — itself a kind of string instrument, making so

Although author Gina Nahai hasn’t set foot on Iranian soil since 1977, she still carries a sense of the place with her in everything she does. A