Perhaps the most surprising, and telling, images in “Chagall” an exhibit of works by famed 20th-century artist Marc Chagall, curated by Constance Schwartz at the Nassau

Five books explore four complex people(s), places and events. Gloria Goldreich reviews two books that look at the enigma of writer Irene Nemirovsky—in her fiction

We all know that America prides itself on being a melting pot, home to simmering masses of immigrants both Jewish and not. But we are

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt is best known for his portraits of beautiful society ladies, predominantly Jewish, during Vienna’s golden age from the 1880s to World

Although I can’t remember when I first heard the name Hadassah, my real interest in the Women’s Zionist Organization of America started in my midtwenties

FILMS Violins in Wartime When the Second Lebanon War breaks out in 2006, one likely casualty is the annual international violin master course at Kibbutz

Just in time for Hadassah’s 100th birthday, two academic presses have released in-depth appraisals of the significant roles played by Hadassah in American Jewish and

NONFICTION Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 418 pp. $28) Novelist, columnist, playwright, memoirist, winner of