Category: Arts News

By Bethlehem Shoals, other

By Bethlehem Shoals, other (Tablet) — In the 1930s, Hank Greenberg chased Babe Ruth’s records and won the 1934 World Series with the Detroit

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews We have seen plenty of literature, films and nonfiction about the horrors of the Holocaust. Even more so now as t

By Beth Kissileff, JTNews Correspondent

By Beth Kissileff, JTNews Correspondent One would not expect a novel about a battered woman and her protectors, identity confusion, and murder to b

By Masha Rifkin, other

By Masha Rifkin, other Perhaps doctor doesn’t know best. In their new book, Your Medical Mind: How To Decide What is Right For You, husband-w

By Neal Schindler , Special to JTNews The wild rumpus began around 6:30 p.m. In front of buffets packed with lox, knishes, and apricot kuchen, the

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Note: The name of the theater company’s fall production has been corrected to Tales of Chelm. When the Seat

By Heather Robinson , Special to JTNews In advance of her November 4 performance at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater, the indefatigable Joan Rivers

By Gigi Yellen, JTNews Correspondent Jewish and Nazi prisoners interned together behind the same barbed wire? Sometimes in the same bed? Both consi

By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews The pioneering Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem was born in a shtetl in the middle of the 19th century, and even t

By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf, other Toronto filmmaker Naomi Jaye is set to produce Canada’s — and possibly North America’s — first Yiddish fe

By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews The astonishingly cheeky French screwball comedy The Names of Love willfully takes on the most sensitive issues f

By Corey Salka , Special to JTNews "What God is trying to do with this world is to figure out who he is through us," music sensation Matisyahu tol

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews A funny thing happened while I was reading David Bezmozgis’s new novel The Free World (Farrar, Straus, Giro

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When Michele Yanow and Mary Pat Graham heard Kol Dodi, the Metro-West Jewish Community Chorale of New Jersey perf

By Herb Krohn, Special to JTNews The Seattle International Film Festival is underway through Sunday, June 12, 2011. Information and tickets can be