Category: Arts News

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Hey, what’s that I hear in the background? It’s nice, it’s perhaps a little worldly, it’s

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent "Cantata for the Children of Terezìn" by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter Ravello Records, $16.99 CD. 50 minutes.

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Deb Perelman is dreaming about a pumpkin cheesecake gingersnap pie. "I think I just dream [recipes]

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews

By Chavie Lieber , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s not every day an Israeli wakes up to an email inbox full of love letters from

By Peter Klein, Special to JTNews An opera written in a Nazi concentration camp about a murderous ruler who tries to outdo Death himself might soun

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Back in his prime, Luther Stallings was the biggest, baddest, blackest Kung Fu champion and action movie star to

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Occasionally, a book comes out that changes history. One of these books is the Aleppo Codex, the He

By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews Something odd happens while Stiles White, co-screenwriter of "The Possession," is answering my first question: M

By Gwen Davis, Special to JTNews White bunnies, hop away quickly, or Joshua Jay might snatch you up. Unless, of course, you don’t mind poppin

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews When René Levy agreed to give a talk at his synagogue about "sinat chinam," or baseless hatred, he

By , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — Marvin Hamlisch, the acclaimed composer and arranger of dozens of Broadway plays and films, has died a

By Jason Miller, JTA World News Service WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (JTA)—Fans of the long-running Showtime series "Weeds" know that writer and c

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Seattle’s beleaguered Intiman theater has reopened this summer with a festival, four plays presented in r

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews