Category: Arts News

By Dikla Tuchman , Special to JTNews Seattle filmmaker Lisa Cohen worked in technical post-production for 15 years before leaving her job to stay a

By Ben Magalnick, Special to JTNews

By Ben Magalnick, Special to JTNews Steve Sheinkin, the creator of the "Rabbi Harvey" graphic novel series, rolled through town on the last weeken

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Ben Gurion Hosting is a documentary in the truest sense: The entire film is based upon the first Israeli prime mi

By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews Like a native Angeleno, Dani Menkin effortlessly conducts a phone interview from his car without missing a beat —

By Charlene Kahn, Special to JTNews

By Charlene Kahn, Special to JTNews It’s a real mystery: How did Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky become close to the major figures in modern

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews The Seattle area is unique in that such a large Sephardic population settled here more than a century ago. While

By Charlene Kahn, Special to JTNews Although cold February winds blew outside the doors, in the social hall of Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle&

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent On Feb. 10, Seattleite Cecelia Benzaquen, inside a packed movie house in Berlin, sat on the edge of her seat

By Edward Alexander , Special to JTNews

By Edward Alexander , Special to JTNews Lost causes, forsaken beliefs, impossible loyalties! How many of these figure in, and sometimes disfigure,

By Charlene Kahn , Special to JTNews "A rumination on the preservation of history: who records it and why? What drives its documentation? Is it obj

By Charlene Kahn, Special to JTNews A characteristic of timeless design is the ability for a piece to reappear as if newly imagined, seamlessly mel

By Judy Lash Balint, Special to JTNews Instead of arriving to work at the Spectrum Dance Company’s home on tranquil Lake Washington Boulevard