Category: Arts & Culture

By Dikla Tuchman, Special to JTNews Long after the wine has been quaffed, the fingers pointed, the hushed comments disappeared into the ether, the

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews So many secrets, so little time. But in communist-era Poland, secrets are the currency of choice. Such is the cas

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Here’s a synopsis: Uptight, repressed Valley girl spends some time in the city, learns about herself, and f

By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews The curtain rises on the riveting, roller-coaster drama Wunderkinder (Child Prodigies) in a present-day concert

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Achoti HaYafah translates to My Lovely Sister, but it may as well translate to "My Really Dysfunctio

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