Category: Arts & Culture

Without doubt, Andy Statman is the creator of a uniquely American fusion music — call it jazz, spiritual, multicultural, or whatever. For the first ti

We’ve been getting some pretty good music in the mail these days, so we’ve given a few a listen so you can post them on the tunes section

By Arthur Wolak, Special to JTNews

It took seven years for Yann Martel to write his most recent book, Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). The story began as a two-act p

By Eric Nusbaum, Assistant Editor, JTNews

Mark Richard Schuster did not set out to become an author. But after the Seattle entrepreneur completed development on Mosler Lofts, the Belltown cond

By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent

I was delighted to receive a review copy of Scott Simon’s Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption (Random House, cloth, $22),

By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent

Food Simply Southern With a Dash of Kosher Soul, from the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South (cloth, $34.99 plus shipping). The Je

By Penny Schwartz, JTA World News Service

BOSTON (JTA) — Rhyming verse, lively family scenes, a cute pig who eats kosher pickles — and yes, menorahs, latkes and the Maccabees — are featured in

"All I want are high heels, high heels," fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi once said. "If I was a girl, I’d wear a lot of high heels. High stilett

A classic Jewish tale of love and darkness, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk has been the crown jewel of Yiddish theater since its first performance by the

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews

Jewish lore has a rich history of the supernatural, from the clay golems whose creators bring them to life to dybbuks, spirits from the afterlife who