156 stories from Washington Jewish Week
Moroccan born Ismael Ferroukhi was inspired to co-write and direct Free Men after reading how the Grand Mosque of Paris was a hiding place for members of the French Resistance and North Afri…
Summer camps provide an opportunity for girls and boys to explore the great outdoors, make new friends and learn Jewish values.
As moviegoers have flocked to see Marvel's new superhero ensemble, they would understandably associate the idea of Nazi-fighting avengers with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Black…
This year is the Washington Jewish Music Festival's 13th or bar mitzvah year.
Michael Belkin knows plenty about the music industry; he was born and raised in it.
Thursday Abraham, Inc. puts the funk and the swagger into klezmer when a rarefied brain trust of musicians from three distinctive genres share the stage at the Music Center at Strathmore to …
The coincidence of history brings us this little-known fact: two days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox was the first night of Passover. A few days later, Presid…
In commemoration of Yom Hashoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present Traces of Memory, a photo exhibition on loan from the Galicia Jewish Museum …
"I just want you to be entertained and prepare for an unforgettable time. There are no clean getaways."
Coming back from my trip to Israel, I'd say the biggest religious conversion I had was in becoming a writer," said budding playwright Michelle Rosenfarb about her Birthright-like trip s…
When photographer, Anna Shteynshleyger, was a little girl growing up in Moscow in the late 1970s and early 80s, she never imagined the life that would await her in a quiet suburb of Washingt…
"It never gets any easier," Edith Lowy said, her eyes welling up with tears, her voice trembling ever so slightly. Lowy had just finished speaking to about 150 students, staff and …
The players enter and stand holding their instruments - flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, saxophones, trumpets and trombones. In unison they speak: "I want to remind everyone that sed…
Israel was a serious player at the recent Academy Awards and film festival ceremonies thanks to Tel Aviv-based screenwriter and director Joseph Cedar. His newest film, Footnote, was an Oscar…
BERLIN - A new documentary is shining light on Germany's neo-Nazi music scene and the role it plays in cultivating a violent far-right subculture.
While this is the 12th year of the Northern Virginia International Jewish Film Festival, it is the last for its founder, Roz Engels, who is retiring and will be honored at the festival's clo…
If the first image that comes to mind when you think of Israeli folk dance is the hora you danced at your cousin Josh's bar mitzvah, you've missed out on a world of creativity. "Israeli…
The JCC of Greater Washington's Fourth Annual Film Festival is set to begin on March 14, with 10 award-winning films in the line-up.
In the middle of the of the trial to determine his excommunication, the young Baruch di Spinoza asks those present, "Would you say a play is still going on after the actors' final exit,…
For the past seven years, the Har Shalom Players, in the words of one of the songs from this year's show, "spread sunshine all over the place."
Who needs musical instruments? That thought must have been on the minds of the more than 1,000 people who gathered in Adas Israel Congregation in the District last Friday to hear the v…
There are few biblical stories as riveting as that of Queen Esther. There's a little of everything - romance, adventure, humor, an evil plot, a dastardly villain, sweet revenge, and best of …
Computer software, cut diamonds, textiles, tomatoes and modern dance top the list of Israel's chief exports. Modern dance? Yes, really. Israeli choreographers have been a hot commodity on th…
Poland's talented director Agnieszka Holland is on a life's mission to chronicle compelling survival stories of the Holocaust. Her latest, In Darkness, a riveting film about a band of Jews h…
