By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I noticed that the popular, very cool new Hasidic reggae artist, Matisyahu, made a single app
Read MoreThe Hip Hop Hoodios first emerged with their debut EP, Raza Hoodio, back in 2002. With this debut, the Hoodios embraced the task of exposing the worl
Read MoreThis May, renowned Jewish songstress Debbie Friedman will come to Seattle to give a special performance at the Jewish Education Council’s ̶
Read MoreLukas Foss: Elegy for Anne Frank (Naxos 8.559438) The title work and four other Foss pieces share this disc with one Seattle Symphony performance, co
Read MoreIn The Outside World, bestselling author Tovah Mirvis takes us into the homes, hearts and minds of two Northeastern Orthodox Jewish families: the Gol
Read MoreHistorical circumstances and economic necessity have often sent Jews wandering, and thereby hang these tales of exploration and discovery. Sam Appl
Read MoreUniversity of Washington professor Naomi Sokoloff issued a well-defined invitation to her Jewish Studies colleagues around the U.S. and Canada when s
Read MoreMusic of Remembrance’s spring concert “In Defiance!” is a diverse musical offering of Holocaust-era and contemporary composition. M
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am dreading what I know will become an uncomfortable moment as we get ready for my famil
Read MoreYesterday, hip-hop artist So Called released The So Called Seder, his solo debut on JDub Records. Just as with his previous outing with Klezmer fiddl
Read MoreYou don’t usually think of your local librarian as a rock star. Nonetheless, it’s hard to find a better word to describe local book afici
Read MoreIn contrast to the incendiary 2004 release of Mel Gibson’s bloody epic The Passion of the Christ, the current British film version of William S
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I need help navigating the perils of Purim! I do not like Purim. I find it to be a very troub
Read MoreWhether it is the music of Jewish composer Bernard Herrmann heard in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America
Read MoreBy Joshua Rosenstein, Assistant Editor, JTNews The controversial Pilots’ Letter was originally signed by 27 Israeli fighter pilots who refus
Read MoreBy Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When Rabbi Dov Gartenberg was in college, the Shabbat dinners he spent with the family of a close friend served
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Armed with press packets and passion, 11 Seattle chapter Hadassah members from Bellingham to Vancouver showe
Read MoreTollbooth cute but trite Poor Sarabeth (Marla Sokoloff, “The Practice,” Dude, Where’s My Car?) is only trying to find her place i
Read MorePaula Heil Fisher’s feature-length documentary film Finding ElÈazar will air as part of the American Jewish Committee’s Seattle Jewish F
Read MoreAs host of weeknight music on KING-FM (98.1), it’s been my good fortune to share, on recent Monday evenings, selections from the radio series &
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