Category: Arts & Culture

It’s a seasonal phenomenon — this contrast of holidays and observance, ping-ponging between solemn and celebration. Several children’s boo

Seattle is no New York. Here, bourekas are more common than blintzes and gefilte fish is reinvented with wild Pacific salmon. The Yiddish culture that

Life in Weimar Germany was, well, a cabaret. For a few years between the two world wars, before the Nazis came into power, Germany’s gay communi

It’s not by any means the whole Megillah, but like the woman at the heart of the Purim story, the Baroque oratorio "Esther" made history. With

When a band has been together for nearly a quarter of a century, a celebration is warranted. If it’s a Jewish band, you can assume that a certai

Rachel Amado Bortnick didn’t suffer through pogroms. She didn’t escape her home country as government troops closed in on her town. She di

When we think about Israeli films, we think about them taking place in Israel. Often, we think about them addressing the kinds of issues that make Isr

For decades after the war, French filmmakers avoided the subject of their country’s collaboration during the Nazi Occupation. The late Louis Mal

Were things really better in the old days? Or do we look back and see our past with rose-colored glasses? Those hazy memories — of the shtetl in Russi

The music director of southwest Washington’s Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is also the principal guest conductor of Israel’s Raanana Sympho

On his way to becoming a perennial All-Star in the mid-1950s, Cleveland Indians clean-up hitter Al Rosen received more than his share of barbs from op

"I’ll change that!" Cantor David Serkin-Poole calls out, pointing to Isaac Azose during rehearsal on Feb. 2, then getting right back to the mus

Her own journey of spirit By Ann Coppel Debbie believed that singing was life giving. She loved people singing with her, participating. Singing is how

First the bad news: Book Lust is finished. Now the good news: Nancy Pearl, the creator of the series of books that helps hungry readers find the righ

"Even after 70 years, I still remember how to make my own developer," says Faye Schulman. During the three years she lived in the woods, fighting the

The end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will happen as a result of the everyday efforts of ordinary people, not the proclamations of politicians,