As a kid, I had no idea schmuck wasn’t an English word. In 1985, my fourth-grade Cheder class in Los Angeles was assigned to ...

A Walnut Creek resident has translated the autobiographical novel of a renowned Yiddish writer raised amid hardship in a ...

In 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in ...

On July 28, 1776, Jewish merchant Jonas Phillips sent a Dunlap Declaration broadside overseas as Washington reorganized army hospitals.

Rabbi Laura Geller, who has been breaking down barriers for Jewish women since becoming the Reform movement’s third woman ...

Phyllis Dana faced a choice: leave Winnipeg to study opera at a prestigious Philadelphia school, or marry the man she loved.

Last week, I was privileged to see one of the great films of the past few decades. “The Odyssey” manages to be a stunning, ...

Finkelstein was an acclaimed author of nonfiction books and biographies for older children, including many on Jewish subjects.

WITH a twist of irony that has become typical in Israel's history, this year's hundredth anniversary of the birth of Zionism is also a time of renewed Israeli-Palestinian violence, faltering peace ...

Carnegie Mellon’s Office for Institutional Equity and Title IX (IEX Office) has expanded its ongoing investigation into individuals involved in recent Fence paintings from eight to 10.

Despite floods and two horrific hand accidents, the Swedes drew the blueprint for what heavy music would become in the 21st ...