Courtesy Joshua Malina

Hollywood values

Fans of Hollywood screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin are likely to recognize actor Joshua Malina. Malina’s characters have historically been

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Milk, meat and music

On the other side of your radio, heading into the holiday season with heart suspended, I balance your need to believe I’m really there with my n

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Singing to the heavens

To listen to Simu Lev’s Revive as background, or as a soothing way to hear Jewish music, would be missing the point. The second album from this

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The slow slide down

Atmospheric Disturbances By Rivka Galchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24) Dr. Leo Leibenstein, a well-regarded, oft-published psychotherapist is hav

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A long, difficult fight

When Joshua Isaac first screened his documentary, My Left Hand, at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival in June of 2007, things were going well.

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Harold Langdon

A Jewish tone

Throughout Marvin Hamlisch’s career, which spans 40 years and includes writing hit Broadway plays, music for movies, and conducting pops concert

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David Abitbol

He still has the beat

Matisyahu is notorious for doing what he wants — from switching record companies (in 2006 he dumped the indie JDub Records for the big boys at Sony) t

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Ido Haar

Trying to get by

From Mexico to Turkey to the Philippines to the West Bank, tens of thousands of people leave their homes every year seeking menial jobs in developed c

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Samuel Goldwyn Pictures

The power of love

Fugitive Pieces, which screened at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 14 and 15, is based on the 1996 Canadian bestselling novel of the s

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Courtesy Moshe Cotel

Putting the Torah to music

When people with successful careers hit 60, they often take stock of what they’ve done, make some decisions on how they might spend their so-cal

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UCM Films

SIFF in short

Hamdi & Maria (short) Rating: Outstanding Documentary — Israel — Subtitled This emotional short documentary work examines the efforts of Hamdi, a Pal

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A life spent searching

For most of his life, Jakob has been searching. As a young boy in Poland in 1942, Jakob watched from behind a fake wall as Nazi soldiers shot his pare

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Courtesy Skorbyashchenskaya and Uchitel

Bringing back a lost genre

A view of pre-Revolution Russian Jewish life will be on display in Seattle next month. Russian piano duo Olga Skorbyashchenskaya and Konstantin Uchite

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Courtesy Seattle Symphony

Genesis Suite restored

You might call our story "The Case of the Missing Manuscripts." It has all the elements of a great detective novel: European émigrés in Hollywood,

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Zeitgeist Films

A stinging triumph

Acclaimed fiction writers Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen’s marvelous debut feature Jellyfish is an even greater triumph than Beaufort and The Band

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Courtesy MOR

A “Ray of Sunshine”

Yiddish culture takes the spotlight in "Ray of Sunshine," Music of Remembrance’s May 12 concert at Benaroya Hall. The title comes from a line i

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