Category: Arts & Culture

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

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent On the phone from her home in Ramat Eshkol, near Tel Aviv, Chava Alberstein says it’ll be a short

By Charlotte Anthony, Special to JTNews Note: This article has been corrected to note that not all films are open to the general public. Students

By Eric Herschthal, other NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish Week)—That "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the notorious anti-Semitic tract about a J

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews DVD Reviews Nora’s Will (2010, Mexico) Directed by Mariana Chenillo Menemsha Films Fourteen times Nora trie

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Celebrated Israeli writer David Grossman is on tour in the U.S. to talk about his latest novel, To t

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The Holocaust provides powerful foreshadowing, albeit unintentional by the author, in White Picture: Poems by Ji

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Local Authors Bones Beneath Our Feet, by Michael Schein (B&H, paper, $16.95). This book is difficult to read, no

By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to JTNews

By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to JTNews There is no better way to locate the best in Judaic children’s books for sharing and giving as gif