The Ten Commandments are familiar to most and some may know of the seven Noahide laws, but in the hierarchy of biblical lists, the 613 mitzvot is a…

Sarabeth Levine has popularized fruit jams and put breakfast and brunch on the menu at her restaurants. Now she's out with a cookbook devoted to the morning meal.

A new exhibit pays homage to the incredible talents of Paul Simon, one of America's most beloved and popular Jewish singer/songwriters.

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is out with the musical comedy Di Goldene Kale, The Golden Bride.

Film reviews including new Claude Lanzmann documentary and Amos Oz's 'Censored Voices.'

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.