Category: Arts & Culture

By Dikla Tuchman, JTNews Correspondent Christopher Huh is not Jewish. He has no European heritage and he’s not even old enough to drive. But

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent "I felt he’d found my letters, and read each one out loud..." You know why you love that song, "Ki

By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Film historian Bob Birchard describes an anti-Jewish prejudice in American culture that existed well into the 20th century

By Tori Gottlieb, Special to JTNews New Century Theatre’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens tonight, April 5, at the INScape

By Charlene Freadman Kahn , JTNews Correspondent "Bubby’s Kitchen" is opening in Kirkland, but it’s not a restaurant. It’s a one

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent He was a force to be reckoned with, this large-voiced man, the composer Bonia Shur. When Shur died last

By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews The unexpectedly lovely documentary "Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story" reminds us what an unequivocal Israel

By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent "When Moses was in Egypt land, let my people go..." The haunting words of this recognizable Passover hymn

By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Remember that scene at the end of "The Graduate" when Elaine has skipped out on her wedding and fled with Benja

By Erin Pike, Special to JTNews In 1999, Israeli-born Itai Erdal moved to Vancouver, B.C. to pursue a film career. A year later, he found out his m

By , JTNews Correspondent Everyone’s got their eyes on Izzy Grossman (Carol Sage Silverstein, lower left), the young woman who’s trying

By Rob Eshman, other LOS ANGELES (Jewish Journal) — No one sends out press releases to announce that something is not anti-Semitic. That’s wh

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