Category: Arts & Culture

Who ever heard of Hank Greenspun? Unless you grew up in Las Vegas sometime between the ‘50s and ‘70s, or paid close attention to the machi

Allow me, if you will, to illuminate for you two unwavering cinematic truths. First, in any film, if an adorable animal appears in the first act — esp

It might be a few hours after you leave the theater before it hits you how spiritual a film Seven Minutes in Heaven is. Galit (Reymond Amsellem) survi

Even by the high standards set by Israeli films in the last few years, Ajami is a knockout. A crackling urban drama shot with unblinking realism and s

For their first time out, Israeli’s Ethiopian community has produced a film that enters their adopted country’s pantheon of moviemaking. T

Seven years ago, Israeli musician Idan Raichel never thought he’d be touring the world and meeting some of the planet’s greatest musicians

Ruthlessly and riotously, A Matter of Size (Sipur Gadol) proves once and for all that Israel is the world’s capital of tough love. Four seriousl

French-Jewish writer-director Karin Albou assumed that the Algerian side of her family had been untouched by World War II. Then she came across the le

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to note the position of the former Indian ambassador to Israel. When the review committee for the S

[Note: This article has been corrected to properly name Angella Nazarian’s husband.] When Jewish Iranian Angella Nazarian fled the violent revo

Leyna Krow Assistant Editor, JTNews The routine of going out for Chinese food and a movie on Christmas Eve is so ubiquitous among Jews that it seems

Not one of the many American movies about the Iraq War has been made by a former soldier — until now. The Israeli-born, U.S.-based writer-director Ore

The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses by Stephen H. Norwood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

On the Shabbat before Simchat Torah, at the weekly Torah study at North Seattle’s Temple Beth Am, Rabbi Beth Singer asked regular participants t

Renowned Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has broken through as an international sensation in part because of her album Mano Suave, which is sung largely in

What would happen if 6 million Jews were invited to go back to Germany? That is what playwright Israel Horowitz asks in Lebensraum. Seattle will get t