156 stories from Washington Jewish Week
About two years ago when unrest between the secular and ultra-Orthodox in Beit Shemesh made headlines throughout the world, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Partnership 2G…
For her forthcoming documentary, filmmaker Yael Luttwak had no problem coming up with a compelling, hyperarticulate and controversial character. Her father.
Idan Raichel has made the accordion cool.
Jews were prevalent in movies in 2012, though not necessarily in major Hollywood releases. You had to know where to look, and you had to be quick given the short runs of most independent and…
More than 80 Israeli folk dance enthusiasts came together on Dec. 22 to honor longtime folk dance leader Ben Hole with a surprise party that was six months in the making.
Noemi and Katriel Schory, two major movers and shakers in the Israeli film industry, will receive the Washington Jewish Film Festival's Visionary Award on Monday, Jan. 7.
Israeli author and playwright Savyon Liebrecht has long used her pen to amplify women's voices - wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers and friends. Though Liebrecht began writing as a t…
Off White Lies, the wonderfully graceful and intelligent debut feature by Israeli director Maya Kenig, is a road movie with a twist.
More than 1600 fans and music lovers came out to hear chart-topping rock band, Of A Revolution, more commonly known as O.A.R, play its second Heard the World Benefit Concert this past Friday…
The shtetl Jews of Sadagora in the Ukraine didn't know from platinum.
It took less than an hour for the author of 230 children's books to turn a bunch of second through fourth-graders at the Torah School of Greater Washington into potential writers.
Michael Raitzyk picked up the guitar when he was 6. His mom was a Dylan fan, and he remembers one of his first songs was "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream." Baltimore-born and bred, Raitzyk didn't gr…
Music, dancing, singing, schmoozing and lots of good times were in order earlier this month during the two-day Jewish Folk Arts Festival held at Tifereth Israel Congregation in the District …
When Zachary Johnston moved to Berlin in 2008, he phoned his friend Ira Gewanter in Baltimore to share something shocking.
Difficult conversations are an inevitable part of child rearing. While I often turn to parenting books and websites to guide me through some of life's thornier moments, more often than not, …
He was the folk poet of the downtrodden and disaffected. A traveling minstrel for struggling farmers, migrant workers, day laborers and union members, Woody Guthrie wrote and sang anthems to…
When Zachary Johnston moved to Berlin in 2008, he phoned his friend Ira Gewanter in Baltimore to share something shocking about his new city.
When Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger's grandmother died at the age of 98, Goldfinger, his mother Hannah, and Goldfinger's siblings frequented the grandmother's apartment in Tel Aviv to pa…
Vampires, zombies and werewolves are having their day. Jews have made their own contribution to the roster of creatures that are of us, but are not us: the dybbuk and the golem. In case you'…
Israel's best-selling singer ever - with 37 songs topping the national charts - didn't expect her latest release, My Joys, to become another top seller. Rita sings all the songs in her mothe…
Daniel Mendoza came from the school of hard knocks - if he didn't found the school outright. He fought bare-knuckled, as they did in England in the 1780s, and put to bed the likes of Harry t…
The most surprising and refreshing aspect of Simon and the Oaks, a terrific-looking Swedish saga of a cultured Jewish family and a rural non-Jewish family before and after World War II, is w…
When D.C. designer Connie G. Krupin, 56, was a new mom, she used WiteOut to cover up "Baby's First Christmas" in her baby book. She took markers and drew in menorahs and stars. Finally, she …
