Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American This exhibit focuses on the role baseball played in helping Jews and other minorities feel comfortable in the United

Sosúa: Make a Better World Bits of West Side Story, strangers in a strange land and a civic lesson on American diversity are rolled into

Edgar Mendez, a 59-year-old lawyer, arrived in Mexico City from Neiva, Colombia, where he used to be a Catholic priest. Charton Baggio, 45, a motivational

“I’ve got a situation here,” said Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn as he stood at the edge of the freshwater pool. “I can do the men’s mikve

Five celebrated American-born, secular Jewish artists—Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers and R.B. Kitaj—found inspiration in the Bible, creating modern midrash. In the

Call it the Big Apple. Gotham. Or even, just New York, New York. Anyone who picks up any of the three volumes that make up

Although the family depicted in David Laskin’s impressively researched and absorbing narrative is his, it is compelling as both memoir and history. It recounts the

The Collini Case: A Novel (Viking Adult, 208 pp. $25.95 cloth, $15 paper) combines murder, love, greed, ambition, politics and Nazis. Written by Ferdinand von Schirach, a