Was the original purpose of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice something other than what has been traditionally depicted over the centuries? Was the background to its creation other

Every other Friday afternoon, a group of musicians—a clarinetist, trombonist, bass player and drummer—blasts away on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. The group, most often

A leading industrialist and philanthropist in one of the diaspora’s largest—if least-known—Jewish communities, Oleksandr Feldman, 53, is serving his fourth term in the Verkhouna Rada,

For several years, Jewish groups have stressed the importance of marketing themselves to the young in our community, creating dynamic programming that appeals to a

Last August, as I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary, I quietly marked another anniversary of sorts: half a decade of searching, meddling, advising, consoling, celebrating—and

Dinner Tablets A new iPad application by Israeli company Kinetic Art will have you preparing meals by Israeli chef Meir Adoni with professional ease, in

Nonfiction FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman. (Harvard University Press, 433 pp. $29.95) One of the more contentious issues in Holocaust historiography

FILMS Zaytoun An odd-couple road movie is mixed with Middle East politics as Fahed, a Palestinian boy from a Lebanese refugee camp longing to plant