On a foggy Sunday in January, the hip boutiques, cafés and art galleries in New York’s Lower East Side teem with young locals who could

How to preserve, manage and promote Jewish historic sites is a pressing issue for reviving post-communist Jewish communities across Central and Eastern Europe. Many of

Most people return from Paris with flowery descriptions of the spectacular art, architecture and fashion of the city. But the Paris I love to visit

FILMS War of the Buttons It is 1944 in occupied France, and Jews are being dragged off by the French police. But for the young

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I am standing at my white kitchen counter feeding sticky ingredients into a food mixer: clumps of dates, walnut pieces from a cellophane packet, slices

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