Category: Arts & Culture

By Michael Fox, Special to JTNews An important challenge for 21st-century documentary filmmakers is connecting the distant history of the Holocaust

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews If the first 17 years of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival were its childhood, its 18th "chai" year is the time

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent What’s so Jewish about the fiddle? Okay, the violin. You do know that even classical players of th

By Charlene Kahn , JTNews Correspondent Two world-acclaimed dance companies will link Chicago to Israel to Seattle for one night this February. On

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist In the year since her book, "We are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (University of Nebraska),

By Charlene Kahn , JTNews Correspondent Up alongside the process of major scientific research and discovery is the necessity of human communication

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Foster Hirsch loves movies with passion and enthusiasm. A professor of film, commentator, interviewer, histo

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews The first floor of Lauren Grossman’s Central District home is gutted and full of lab glass, mo

By Dikla Tuchman, JTNews Correspondent For those of us far enough removed from the generations of Jews and Germans who lived through the extraordin

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The 1960s and its shifting societal attitudes are a common thread in four new novels of Jewish interest. Closest

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist More Fiction The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich (Gallery, paper, $15). America of the 1960s (see "Learning Je

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Hey, what’s that I hear in the background? It’s nice, it’s perhaps a little worldly, it’s

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent "Cantata for the Children of Terezìn" by Mary Ann Joyce-Walter Ravello Records, $16.99 CD. 50 minutes.