For most, the story of Tevye the milkman is tumble-down, work-a-day Anatevka — and it’s a man’s world. That the Sholem Aleichem stories situated the philosopher dairy deliverer outside of a shtetl, ...

As the sun rose over Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, sirens rang out, signaling yet another incoming missile attack from Iran ...

Early morning sirens coincided with the morning of Shushan Purim, as thousands of Israelis gathered, despite a prohibition on ...

Some movies cut so close to home that they make it impossible to have an objective response. When I was watching Tatyana ...

That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, and also Ian Buruma’s memoir about his grandparents, “Their Promised Land.” The idea is, as soon as you show ...

A Pew survey included a question on their Religious Landscape Survey: “How often do you think about the meaning and purpose of life?” Nearly half the sample (47%) said that this was a thought they had ...

Across dinner tables and in living rooms, something has shifted. Conversations about Israel that once felt natural now feel ...

Joint Israel-US strikes on the Iranian regime are taking place just as Jews are set to mark a festival commemorating another ...

Mothers who just don’t understand have been a fixture in literature since literature was invented. After all, Hamlet’s mom marries the man who murdered his dad.

With special status as a walled city during the time of the Megillah story, the Israeli capital celebrates Shushan Purim with costumes, feasting and periodic runs to the bomb shelter ...

Bolivia was one of the few countries to welcome Jews during the Holocaust, and he began to see the project as a way to give back. He’d create jobs for the Bolivian people, he thought. He’d build ...

Little Yenta has to be the tiniest used bookshop in Philly. And it’s certainly the only one located in the back of a 40-year-old children’s dressmaking studio. Ariel and Simon Censor, partners in life ...