Archives for November 2012

Celebrated journalist Charles Krauthammer and his wife, Robyn, are the organizing forces behind Pro Musica Hebraica.

This Hanukka, for the sake of our daughters, let’s tell the missing piece of the Maccabee story. Let’s celebrate the Queen of the Jews, who

Every year at this time we read stories about how the Pilgrims likely used their knowledge of Sukkot, the harvest festival of ancient Israel, as

For the Grownups… The Idelsohn Society Presents: ‘Twas the Night Before Hanukkah, The Musical Battle Between Christmas and the Festival of Lights This two-CD set keeps the two

Israeli designer Leetal Kalmanson and her glamorous jewelry are the fashion accessories of choice this year, while The Jewish Museum in New York showcases its

Everything about Jerusalem is “complicated”: its political status, its soup-mix population of Arabs and Jews from wide diasporas, even its food. It is that last

A provocative, audacious artist, a feminist before the word was widely known, a Holocaust survivor of three concentration camps, Alina Szapocznikow is the subject of

In My Name is Asher Lev, a Hasidic Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn has a prodigious artistic gift, placing him at odds with his family