Virtuoso guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, great-grandson of a Torah scribe, has spent the last two decades exploring his Jewish roots.

With music—particularly East European Jewish music—woven through his family DNA and early childhood, a career rooted in klezmer was bashert.

The Montreal-born singer-poet—who turned 80 last year—recently released his most successful album to date and shows no signs of stopping.

In this sitdown, Judith Gelman Myers questions Claude Lanzmann’s deeply personal defense of the man he interviews, Benjamin Murmelstein, in his new film, The Last of

Professor Eva Illouz, who was born in Fez Morocco, raised and educated in France and later in Israel and the United States, is a professor

Shortly after sunset on the closing night of Ron Arad’s video installation 720 Degrees, a great many people mill around the sculpture garden of the Israel

I first met Meir Ribalow in 1982, when he and his family chose Hadassah Magazine to administer a literary prize in memory of his father, Harold. For

ATTENTION: Spoiler alert! When Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger cleaned out his recently deceased grandmother’s flat, he discovered decades’ worth of correspondence between his grandparents and