Category: Arts & Culture

When Elizabeth Kenny first read the one-woman play The Last Letter, she was drawn right away to the World War II-era story of a mother writing a lette

Music of Remembrance, the Seattle-based chamber music organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians and their art, always seems to bring S

At Home In Utopia is a movie based around an apartment complex. The 2008 documentary, directed by Michal Goldman, tells the story of a cooperative hou

For generations of American Jews, an innocent, unformed Dutch teenager personified the victims of the Holocaust. What might have been the repercussion

Strangers (Zarim) Directors: Guy Nattiv & Erez Tadmor Israel, 2007 Hebrew, Arabic & French w/subtitles A few years ago, an Israeli filmmaker in his 4

Circumcise Me Directors: David Blumenthal & Matthew Kalman United States, 2007 English & Yiddish w/subtitles Comedian Yisrael Campbell has acquired a

Temple B’nai Torah will wrap up its 10-week-long 2009/5769 Cultural Arts Series on April 12 with a performance by New York-based songstress Chav

Veteran Israeli director Avi Nesher is an uncommonly ambitious and fearless filmmaker. His latest film, Secrets (HaSadot), calmly broaches as many tab

Fake advertisements for futuristic products. Centerpieces made out of plastic water bottles. Frogs in a jar. These are just a few of the objects visit

All the books presented here are concerned either with Torah or Israel, or both. Rabbi Ian Pear might argue that one leads to the other, as happened t

It may seem like Barry Manilow has come a long way from his roots. Born Barry Pincus in 1943 to a Jewish family, Manilow was raised by his mother and

Marc Revenson grew up around music but always took it for granted. "For starters, I grew up around grandparents who had a real passion for Yiddish,"

Stereotypes may be in the eye of the beholder. At least, that just might be the case in how a character in the French animated film Azur and Asmar, wh

It’s been more than three decades since Golda Meir died. She was a giant on the world stage in her time. Starting life in Kiev, she made her way

The action-packed World War II drama Defiance is a smart, satisfying chunk of pulp nonfiction that, while totally accessible to a wide audience, will

Jorge Liderman: Aires de Sepharad: 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar www.albanyrecords.com I rushed to recommend this graceful recording to the

There are any number of ways, from exploitation to trivialization to stultifying pretension, to bungle a film about the Holocaust and its repercussion