French delicacies like éclairs and macarons are sharing bakery-case real estate with sponge strudels. Argentinian cookies are popping up in bakeries. Artisan bread is on the rise.

Trying to engage young Jews through surfing, in New York and Puerto Rico.

The start-up nation is ready to embrace a new generation of investing with social or environmental causes in mind.

Israeli activists and women’s groups are fighting to make mikves welcoming places for women who come from the entire spectrum of religious observance.

According to the authors, what connects these distant communities to the rest of the known Jewish world is shared pride in their heritage and passionate devotion to God…

If a new bill making its way through Israel's Knesset becomes law, Arabic will be taught to students starting in the first grade.

It is one of the more common sights in certain parts of Jerusalem. A man or woman standing on the side of the street asking for money.

Rivo, a Boston-area academic, early on sensed the imperative to preserve, store and even restore precious Jewish films that capture a world long gone.