Category: Arts News

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent On the phone from her home in Ramat Eshkol, near Tel Aviv, Chava Alberstein says it’ll be a short

By Charlotte Anthony, Special to JTNews Note: This article has been corrected to note that not all films are open to the general public. Students

By Eric Herschthal, other NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish Week)—That "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the notorious anti-Semitic tract about a J

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews DVD Reviews Nora’s Will (2010, Mexico) Directed by Mariana Chenillo Menemsha Films Fourteen times Nora trie

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Celebrated Israeli writer David Grossman is on tour in the U.S. to talk about his latest novel, To t

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The Holocaust provides powerful foreshadowing, albeit unintentional by the author, in White Picture: Poems by Ji

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Local Authors Bones Beneath Our Feet, by Michael Schein (B&H, paper, $16.95). This book is difficult to read, no

By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to JTNews

By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to JTNews There is no better way to locate the best in Judaic children’s books for sharing and giving as gif

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Music by Composer Meira Warshauer: Symphony No. 1, "Living, Breathing Earth" and "Tekeeyah" (A Call) Mo

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman, other

By Rabbi Rachel Esserman, other Who owns a public memorial? How should a nation decide which symbol will express its grief? Should the families of

By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA World News Service

By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Have I got a secret agent for you! When Hamas is smuggling missiles, and Iranians ar

By Vicki Cabot, other

By Vicki Cabot, other It began with a story. A bit of family lore that lured a bright, young writer on a quest to find out more, and then, as can s

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews usic our children listens to is good, safe and largely inoffensive. At the same time, we want to know that every