Category: Arts & Culture

Matisyahu is notorious for doing what he wants — from switching record companies (in 2006 he dumped the indie JDub Records for the big boys at Sony) t

While the news from Israel last week was filled with grief, the truth of Israel shined as brightly as the Seattle summer sun. It reflected off the pia

From Mexico to Turkey to the Philippines to the West Bank, tens of thousands of people leave their homes every year seeking menial jobs in developed c

Fugitive Pieces, which screened at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 14 and 15, is based on the 1996 Canadian bestselling novel of the s

When people with successful careers hit 60, they often take stock of what they’ve done, make some decisions on how they might spend their so-cal

Hamdi & Maria (short) Rating: Outstanding Documentary — Israel — Subtitled This emotional short documentary work examines the efforts of Hamdi, a Pal

A view of pre-Revolution Russian Jewish life will be on display in Seattle next month. Russian piano duo Olga Skorbyashchenskaya and Konstantin Uchite

This year, 800 students from 68 schools across Washington State submitted entries to the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center’s

You might call our story "The Case of the Missing Manuscripts." It has all the elements of a great detective novel: European émigrés in Hollywood,

Acclaimed fiction writers Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen’s marvelous debut feature Jellyfish is an even greater triumph than Beaufort and The Band

Yiddish culture takes the spotlight in "Ray of Sunshine," Music of Remembrance’s May 12 concert at Benaroya Hall. The title comes from a line i

Playing renaissance music for concert audiences requires not only precision musical talent, but a dedication to tedious research. For the members of L

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been almost 35 years since a small group of students, grandmothers and homemakers in Seattle got together t