Elyse Goldstein remembers the entry she submitted in 1973 for her high school yearbook. Each senior was entitled to three lines: name, club and professional

A familiar face to television watchers for his primetime portrayals over the last 15 years, this Brooklyn native was a star long before Hollywood discovered him.

On any given friday evening, the crowd is standing-room only. The long, narrow sanctuary often overflows with up to 300 people: On one side of

In Queens, New York, Cyrillic signs adorn storefronts, restaurants with names like Shalom and Cheburechnaya serve bread baked in a tandoor and a museum showcases

Long after the spiral of 500 watermelons unfurl on an azure salt sea and fade into a thin green line, the un­wind­ing images in Sigalit

The magical and the everyday collide in beautiful ways in the prodigious fiction penned by this popular American Jewish writer. In Alice Hoffman’s literary wonderland,

A range of recent books and exhibitions showcases photography depicting intimate moments and iconic scenes from Israel’s history. “Israel,” writes the country’s former prime minister

Werner Reich did not speak about the Holocaust until about 12 years ago, sometime before his first grandchild, Ben, was born. Reich felt he had