Category: Arts & Culture

On the eve of the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, Music of Remembrance will begin its 12th season with a concert that commemorates Jewish acts of h

A Serious Man, the most Jewish and the most personal film in the Coen Brothers’ 25-year career, is pitched squarely between the musical magnetic

It’s been nearly eight years since Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Pakistan. In that time, his family

The easygoing matriarch of a fictional Jewish family, Molly Goldberg was simultaneously the salt of the earth and doggedly Herculean. But her gently i

Two guys whose careers are based entirely around the neuroses of Jewish families are about to hit it big. Sam Wolfson and Bryan Fogel, creators and st

After almost a decade, singer, songwriter, musician and choreographer Daniel Alpern has returned to Mercer Island to revitalize the Stroum JCC’s

Explaining Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Days of Awe, to children is both difficult and simple. Difficult, because deeper levels of spiritual unde

Generations is an across-the-world e-mail conversation between 30-something writer Masada Siegel and 70-something author Stefanie Zweig. From: Masada

We are lucky to live in a time and in a society that expects each of us to fill at least some of the limitless promise with which we are born, whether

It’s a fool’s errand to criticize Quentin Tarantino for historical inaccuracy or chronic amorality. Everybody knows his movies are inspire

Karen Kosoglad stores memories of her former figure models, her Jewish immigrant-turned-printing-mogul-father and her loving mother, within layers of

Woody Allen once quipped that every time he listened to the music of Wagner, he got the urge to invade Poland. Woody isn’t alone. Many people ca

Musician Dan Reed may not be Jewish, but that didn’t stop him from spending nine months studying at a yeshiva while living in an ultra-Orthodox

Finding himself with a free hour in Washington, D.C. not too long ago, Max Mayer visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He boarded the elevator w

When the Idan Raichel Project came to Hillel at the UW four years ago, I was blown away — and I wasn’t alone. I hadn’t seen so many Israel

Working as a performance artist, it didn’t take Susannah Perlman long to discover she wasn’t the only nice Jewish girl trying to make a li

Nearly 200 guests filled the Museum of History and Industry’s McEachem Auditorium on June 14 to see the world premiere of Unsilenced, a 40-minut