On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein. (Simon & Schuster, 553 pp. $32.50) The “eve” in Bernard Wasserstein’s study

In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen. (Riverhead Books, 272 pp. $16 paper) Three weeks after 86-year-old Peter Matthiessen died on April 5, 2014, what he

The Bridal Chair: A Novel by Gloria Goldreich. (Sourcebooks Landmark, 496 pp. $14.99 paper) Thirty years ago, the world lost a great artist, Moishe Shagal, better

Christians searching for ways to connect to the Bible and Jewish thought have a new multimedia resource, subscription-based Root Source.

According to humorist Ephraim Kishon, when Israelis are asked לַעֲמד‭ ‬בַּתּר (la-amod ba-tor), to stand in line, there are always a “privileged few” who consider

In 2009, four Muslim men conspired to blow up two synagogues in the wealthy Jewish community of Riverdale, New York. Their plot was foiled in a massive F.B.I.…

A roundup of DVDs, from a documentary on Arab and Jewish kids learning ballroom dancing to a film about Josef Mengele.

Israel’s only English-language Internet radio station, TLV1, broadcasts 24/7 with shows on music, from pop to world to indie; art and culture; politics; and more. There