“In crowded Jewish quarters, deprived of air and sunshine, our bodies became weak.… Let us again be wide of body and strong of gaze,” stated

The ubiquity of the tri-cornered Purim cookie hits you in the face when thumbing through a stack of kosher cookbooks (which I do on a

“I think this exhibit is fabulous,” said Esther Solomon Gordon at the new exhibit “Growers, Grocers & Gefilte Fish: A Gastronomic Look at Florida Jews

In May 2003, American troops entered Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters and found a treasure—more than 2,700 Jewish books and thousands of documents dating from the

  Jewish Provence The French Government Tourist Office, in cooperation with the Provence-Alps-Côte d’Azur Tourism Board, has just issued a 48-page booklet with beautiful color

FILMS Bethlehem Israel’s entry in the 2014 Oscar competition for best foreign-language film, this nail-biter on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians—and Palestinian factions—pits Shin

NONFICTION My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit. (Spiegel & Grau, 464 pp. $28) On my first trip to Israel, as

After his book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, was published, it sparked popular discussions and Israeli author and journalist Ari Shavit could