Category: Arts & Culture

For those living far from Israel, it is easy to forget that beyond the media intensive coverage of the friction between Jews and Palestinians, there i

Just about the time you’re asking yourself, what could possibly be new about a film on the Holocaust, along comes the latest documentary, KZ, fr

Alejandro Stepenberg, a senior at Northwest Yeshiva High School, is living a theatrical dream. He recently placed first out of approximately 200 cont

Why is it that those who claim to be the most pious are the ones who end up being the most despicable? The question is a theme that runs through Mare

It would be easy to assume that Brother’s Shadow is a comedy — its two marquee stars, Judd Hirsch and Scott Cohen, are fine comedic actors and b

Journalism is a dangerous job. By some accounts it is the most dangerous job in the world. When the news to be covered is war or political upheaval,

Miao, for all intents and purposes, is invisible. She’s known only by her alias, presumably because she is so catlike — from her thin, pointy fa

The land of eternal paradox, Israel abides all sorts of odd couples. The relationship between Filipino transvestites and elderly religious Jews could

If the history of Jewish oppression has created a tradition of Jewish humanitarians fighting for equality, it has also created plenty of offensive jok

In the lush melodrama Three Mothers, Israeli filmmaker Dina Zvi-Riklis tests the bonds between siblings to a breathtaking degree. In fact, Three Siste

There are myriad ways to approach self-improvement in the context of both religion and culture, and no shortage of Jewish books to help the reader acc

Oftentimes, identifying a Jewish movie can be simple: The Jazz Singer, Yentl, even The Ten Commandments. Others have Jewish characters or themes, tho

The words of the refugee peoples of Darfur and of those working to provide relief to the affected millions in Sudan come to life on Jan. 25 on the sta

If the MeshugaNutcracker sounds like a joke, that’s because it kind of is. The musical, a lighthearted Hanukkah knock-off of the original ballet

Remember the Beatles` song, `Blackbird` ` that wistful yet somehow hopeful little ditty about healing and resurgence? Well, when BlueStreet Jazz