Category: Arts News

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When Music of Remembrance commissioned Betty Olivero to write a piece for this year’s spring concert, they

A funny thing happened to Daniel Alpern as his life began to crumble following the death of his father last year. He began to talk to God and to his r

"Why did you leave me? Why can’t you come back for me?" Dilawar, a young, unemployed Kashmiri Muslim, is praying, as he does after each of his

The pain is physical, it’s emotional, and it’s constant as Ora and Avram hike Israel’s northernmost reaches. But it’s impossib

NEW YORK (JTA) — With all the restrictions, are decent desserts even possible during Passover? "My particular talent is working around restriction,"

When the Price girls show up at their parents’ house for Passover, their mother Lilly opens the door and laments, "You’re early! You’

It’s a seasonal phenomenon — this contrast of holidays and observance, ping-ponging between solemn and celebration. Several children’s boo

Seattle is no New York. Here, bourekas are more common than blintzes and gefilte fish is reinvented with wild Pacific salmon. The Yiddish culture that

Life in Weimar Germany was, well, a cabaret. For a few years between the two world wars, before the Nazis came into power, Germany’s gay communi

It’s not by any means the whole Megillah, but like the woman at the heart of the Purim story, the Baroque oratorio "Esther" made history. With

When a band has been together for nearly a quarter of a century, a celebration is warranted. If it’s a Jewish band, you can assume that a certai

Rachel Amado Bortnick didn’t suffer through pogroms. She didn’t escape her home country as government troops closed in on her town. She di

When we think about Israeli films, we think about them taking place in Israel. Often, we think about them addressing the kinds of issues that make Isr

For decades after the war, French filmmakers avoided the subject of their country’s collaboration during the Nazi Occupation. The late Louis Mal

Were things really better in the old days? Or do we look back and see our past with rose-colored glasses? Those hazy memories — of the shtetl in Russi