By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews What do you do when the person you love turns out to be vastly different than the person you thought he was? This is the question Northwest art lovers, Jewish and not, have been asking themselves in the months since ceramics artist CharlesContinue Reading
By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent We may be Boomers or Millennials, Gen-Xers or Generation Thumbs, but all of us alive in this era are witnesses to the Holocaust. Survivors are still among us. We hear their reports, document them, read them, and work to maintain them accurately in the faceContinue Reading
By Interview by Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in films and sitcoms from Groundhog Day to Mississippi Burning, from Glee to Californication. Tobolowsky is in Seattle this weekend to talk about his new collection of personal stories, “The Dangerous Animals Club.” He talked to JTNewsContinue Reading
By Erin Pike, Special to JTNews The story of Sala Garncarz is full of heartbreak, horror, injustice, and, somehow, hope. Through the five years she spent in Nazi slave labor camps, Sala kept a diary and collected hundreds of letters she received while in the camps. For 50 years sheContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Did you know Wyatt Earp was buried in a Jewish cemetery? This question was all it took for Ann Kirschner to tug at a loose string in the tightly knit fabric of codified history, unraveling an alternative narrative of the American frontier andContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews It’s hard to imagine, with the abundance of Holocaust literature and films, that stories of mind-blowing value still remain largely untold. In 1942 Ukraine, 38 men, women and children slid deep into the earth to spend 511 days hiding from the NazisContinue Reading
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 like thousands of other non-Jewish young people over the last 70 years, Huh, a 14-year-old Korean-American, became deeply affected by the historical account of the Holocaust.Continue Reading
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, “Killing Me Softly.” It’s not just the unabashedly confessional lyrics. It’s that heart-tugging tune that reached up into your life when you didn’t even know youContinue Reading
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, “Killing Me Softly.” It’s not just the unabashedly confessional lyrics. It’s that heart-tugging tune that reached up into your life when you didn’t even know youContinue Reading
By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Film historian Bob Birchard describes an anti-Jewish prejudice in American culture that existed well into the 20th century, not at the level of the Nazi desire to exterminate the Jews, but rather looking down upon Jews as inferior to the mainstream Protestant class that developed inContinue Reading
By Tori Gottlieb, Special to JTNews New Century Theatre’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens tonight, April 5, at the INScape Arts Building. JTNews spoke with Darragh Kennan, the company’s artistic director who will also be leading the cast as Josef K., to discuss the play and NCTC’s goalsContinue Reading
By Charlene Freadman Kahn , JTNews Correspondent “Bubby’s Kitchen” is opening in Kirkland, but it’s not a restaurant. It’s a one-woman musical presentation created and performed by Shira Ginsburg, a cantor, mezzo-soprano, and proud granddaughter of “Bubby” Judith Ginsburg. The one-run show plays at the Kirkland Performance Center on AprilContinue Reading
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 August at the age of 89, Rabbi David Ellenson, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, paid him tribute for having “composed for andContinue Reading
By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews The unexpectedly lovely documentary “Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story” reminds us what an unequivocal Israeli hero looks like. A portrait of the life and times of the only Israeli casualty of the stunning long-distance rescue of the Jewish hostages at Entebbe inContinue Reading
By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent “When Moses was in Egypt land, let my people go…” The haunting words of this recognizable Passover hymn take on new meaning in the highly acclaimed dramatic play by Matthew Lopez, “The Whipping Man.” Hard as it is to believe, over 100 years beforeContinue Reading
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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 Benjamin Braddock on a city bus? The look on their faces — Katharine Ross in her white veil, Dustin Hoffman sweaty and with hisContinue Reading
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 mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had nine months to live. Erdal returned home to care for her and to filmContinue Reading
By , JTNews Correspondent Everyone’s got their eyes on Izzy Grossman (Carol Sage Silverstein, lower left), the young woman who’s trying to decide between two suitors: A suave writer from New York or the pickle peddler from the Lower East Side. Izzy’s dilemma propels “Crossing Delancey,” a play by SusanContinue Reading
By Rob Eshman, other LOS ANGELES (Jewish Journal) — No one sends out press releases to announce that something is not anti-Semitic. That’s why this morning’s media is full of reports that host Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar performance last night was just shy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s U.N. speech. The Anti-Defamation LeagueContinue Reading
