At a glance, the scene in the Ari Grashin Memorial Gymnasium at Seattle Hebrew Academy on the afternoon of Sept. 17 seemed like a bit of a non sequitu
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Editor’s note: Since this piece was published, director and playwright Charles Waxberg, who had joined the company as artistic director, has sin
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Funny, I took the CD New Shabbos Waltz, David Grisman and Andy Statman’s sequel to their Songs of Our Fathers, for a "Jewish" album, but the di
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After Amy Levy’s suicide in 1888, Oscar Wilde wrote the following about her novel, Reuben Sachs: "Its directness, its uncompromising truth, its
Read MoreIn 1937, my grandfather was traveling on a train from Germany to Switzerland. Next to him sat an officer in the SS. The officer recognized my grandfat
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"I haven’t seen people in Seattle this excited about anything," says my date to the new Mel Brooks Broadway musical Young Frankenstein, which h
Read MoreLife is a Test, the latest book from Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, opens with a quotation: "All that befalls us in this world, the good as well as the b
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Helen Weber wanted to know how — "how Germany and the other countries did what they did" in the Jewish extermination campaign, Operation Reinhard and
Read MoreIf a life examined is worth living, as Plato reminded us, then surely it is worthwhile to examine the lives of the following three contemporary women
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Balkan Beat Box, Nu Med, JDub Records Many years ago, a Hebrew school teacher explained that while the United States was a melting pot, in which peopl
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Since 1994, Michelle Goodman has been thumbing her nose at people who tell her to get a job. Now the Seattle-based writer and editor has become an eva
Read MoreAs I write this, BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston has passed more than 100 days of captivity since his kidnapping. Yet he is presumed to be one of
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At first blush, the idea of a musical about a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto sounds like something out of an early draft of Mel Brooks’ The Produ
Read MoreShort-story aficionados have new choices in three interesting and very different collections with Jewish themes. Fans of veteran crime novelist Fran
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Crazy Love It’s often said that real life is stranger than fiction. The stunning documentary Crazy Love is proof of that adage. In New York Cit
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A simple Sunday-school song born in Seattle, "I Have a Little Dreidel," barely begins to spin the big story of its composer, Samuel E. Goldfarb. Gol
Read MoreDaniel Levisohn Assistant Editor, JTNews Wendy Marcus was waiting patiently at home on the morning of May 18 for a delivery. After almost a year of p
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Marc Salem can "read" the serial numbers on a bill in your wallet, stop his own pulse and guess a word you’ve picked from a book. Striding abou
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"We’re making history," says Music of Remembrance Artistic Director Mina Miller. For its spring 2007 concert, called "Forbidden!" Music of Re
Read MoreMichelle Goldberg writes in the new afterword to her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism that everything fell apart so quickly. Jus
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