Category: Arts News

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews As the Seattle Jewish Film Festival celebrates its 18th year, it has a new home under the auspices of the Stroum

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews If Jewish sons have mommy issues, then Jewish dads have daughter issues. This phenomenon crosses ti

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews What do you do when your family hates you for what you are? If you’re lucky, you get out. That’s wha

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews "A Bottle in the Gaza Sea" (Une Bouteille à la Mer) has been billed by some critics as a Palestin

By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews Animated movies, even more than live-action films, invite us to lose ourselves in a wholly invented world. Frenc

By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews If anyone still thinks comic books — or graphic novels — are strictly child’s play, a few minutes with Pari

By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews An important challenge for 21st-century documentary filmmakers is connecting the distant history of the Holocaust

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews If the first 17 years of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival were its childhood, its 18th "chai" year is the time

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent What’s so Jewish about the fiddle? Okay, the violin. You do know that even classical players of th

By Charlene Kahn , JTNews Correspondent Two world-acclaimed dance companies will link Chicago to Israel to Seattle for one night this February. On

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist In the year since her book, "We are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (University of Nebraska),

By Charlene Kahn , JTNews Correspondent Up alongside the process of major scientific research and discovery is the necessity of human communication

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Foster Hirsch loves movies with passion and enthusiasm. A professor of film, commentator, interviewer, histo

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews The first floor of Lauren Grossman’s Central District home is gutted and full of lab glass, mo

By Dikla Tuchman, JTNews Correspondent For those of us far enough removed from the generations of Jews and Germans who lived through the extraordin

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The 1960s and its shifting societal attitudes are a common thread in four new novels of Jewish interest. Closest

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist More Fiction The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich (Gallery, paper, $15). America of the 1960s (see "Learning Je