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.

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

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.

Some of the symbols in the newly discovered first-century C.E. mikve are typical of depictions in the Second Temple Period.

What Jewish mother would not honor her soldier-son’s request for a special dish for Shabbat, even if that meal required a trek through bustling Jerusalem markets?