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

When Israeli writer Amos Oz was 8 years old, he and two friends built a rocket in the backyard of his Jerusalem home. Made of

FILMS The Other Son French director Lorraine Lévy’s movie may contain heartache, as two sets of parents—one Jewish, the other Palestinian—learn that their sons were

It has been 10 years since Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan. He would have celebrated his 49th birthday on

Perhaps the most surprising, and telling, images in “Chagall” an exhibit of works by famed 20th-century artist Marc Chagall, curated by Constance Schwartz at the Nassau

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt is best known for his portraits of beautiful society ladies, predominantly Jewish, during Vienna’s golden age from the 1880s to World

FILMS Violins in Wartime When the Second Lebanon War breaks out in 2006, one likely casualty is the annual international violin master course at Kibbutz

Members of the multiethnic Northwest Boychoir of Seattle listen intently as three elderly men, survivors of Terezin, tell of the underground magazine they created when they were