Editor’s note: This essay was adapted from “The Dressmaker’s Mirror,” a new book about sudden death and Ashkenazi Jewish mutations. In Jewish communities, conversations about genetic ...

On a frigid night in January, the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland hosted a talk with photographer Hedva Rokach, who was visiting from Israel for an exhibition of her work. Inside the museum, Rokach ...

For Jessica Taylor Bellamy, juxtapositions, transparency, and layers shape a way of working that evokes her family history ...

The Pink Peacock, the anarchist, queer-friendly kosher Yiddish café that operated in Glasgow, Scotland for three years, is looking to reopen in Brooklyn this summer.

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UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.

Shelley is not Jewish, but she and Salsburg — who has ... over time of Yiddish-language and klezmer music marketed to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in the early part of the 20th century.

Last week, we related how Rav Elyah Lopian, zt”l, zy”a, declared that having the strength to keep one’s mouth shut at the right time is a greater accomplishment than Avraham Avinu’s and ...

MK Yitzhak Pindrus, of the Ashkenazic-haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, on Tuesday evening expressed deep concern at the security situation in the country. "We are in a situation that is ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter The first ...

Out of old tales, we must make new lives,” the great literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun once wrote. For London audiences still ...

In every stone he carves, Palestinian artist Ramadan Ahmed tells the story of Gaza’s loss, its people’s survival, and their ...