The title of this ambitious, compassionate tale of four women who love, lose and rededicate themselves to life refers to a “solemn, ancient, sacred” burial ritual, a hesed…
In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…
A desert capital for successive waves of rulers and armies over thousands of years, Beersheba is today the metropolitan center of the Negev, rich with commerce and high-tech.
Exhibit reviews of Andy Wahol show and early Soviet photography at the Jewish Museum in New York, and collage, mixed-media and photographic Holocaust landscapes in Houston.
How do you describe colors to a blind person? Can you convey the shadings, the nuances, the intensities? In The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman asks the reader…