The middle days of Passover are when cooking and menu planning become a challenge—when you’re not necessarily looking to impress large crowds and, more than

Aniam Dery blushes fiercely when asked to explain the philosophy behind her recent art installation, The Tomb. A third-year fine-arts student at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of

When Natalia Indrimi talks about “cultural translation” she means it in the broadest sense imaginable. The Centro Primo Levi, of which she is executive director

Do you know where your pastrami comes from? Leo Beckerman and Evan Bloom do. As proprietors of the 10-month-old Wise Sons deli in San Francisco,

This collection of photographs, on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, explores the work of Soviet Jewish photographers during

FILMS White Tiger Russia’s bid for the foreign-language Oscar starts as a World War II film (above) on the epic tank battles between the Red

FICTION The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories by Steve Stern. (Graywolf Press, 371 pp. $26) Steve Stern is a mischievous writer and The Book of

Mousterpiece by Jane Breskin Zalben (Roaring Brook/Macmillan) At first glance, nothing especially “Jewish” jumps out from the pages of Jane Breskin Zalben’s Mousterpiece a picture book dubbed a