Category: Arts & Culture

What do costumes, political intrigue, epic stories and the Stroum Jewish Community Center make you think of? If you said Purim, you would be very clos

What’s so funny about lunch? Well, when you get a bunch of Jewish comediennes around a table — in this case, Judy Gold, Cory Kahaney, Jackie Hof

Dror Shaul paints Sweet Mud in the soft golden hues that filmmakers typically use to denote cherished memories. His choice of palette is bitterly iron

Slate Magazine music critic Jody Rosen admits that his first historical Jewish music compilation, Jewface, is quirkier and distinctly separate from hi

If it were an American film, writer-director Ayalet Menahemi’s first feature in 14 years would be called a small independent film. It has a smal

The early settlers who created the first kibbutzim dreamed of more than just a Jewish homeland. They were creating a new egalitarian society free of e

Sixty Six, the opening night film for the 13th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival, tells the story of dweeby, asthmatic British adolescent Bernie Rub

When Margriet Tindemans, director of The Medieval Women’s Chorus, finally accepted a request from one of her chorus members to present a program

Israeli writer Ron Leshem wasn’t up on the finer points of Oscar night fashion, but he did know something better: how it felt to be nominated fo

The 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film went to an Austrian movie about Nazi crimes. You may not have heard about these crimes — yes, th

Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore — but let me back up. Maybe I should start by telling you that the title of the second song is "Un Madre C

scourse? Donald Byrd, artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater, isn’t sure, but he and his colleagues aim to find out over the course of the

Of the nearly 150,000 Jews sent to the Terezìn concentration camp in Czechoslovakia between 1940 and 1945, more than 30,000 died within its walls. Th

Spanning three nights, six hours and 350 years, the PBS series "The Jewish Americans" is an ambitious project by any measure. And yet, despite the sw

"They performed for their lives," says the flyer for Seattle actor/writer David Natale’s play, The Westerbork Serenade. And that’s precis