It is just after 4 P.M. in Petah Tikva, a working-class town in central Israel, and a group of chattering schoolchildren are making their way

A dazzle of color is the visitor’s reward for climbing four flights of stairs to take a peek at this duplex overlooking the Mediterranean Sea:

Rachel and Itai met in college. She was a senior at a Florida university; he was an Israeli shaliah who came to the campus to talk about

One day every year, Israelis—mostly secular—take time to mourn, celebrate and remember fallen Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the era of hope that he symbolized.

The only movement that succeeded to organize large amounts of pressure was the Soviet Jewry movement, and that is why [the regime] had to start

In the corner of a Tel Aviv boutique called Mikvah rest bolts of soft summer silk and fine cotton speckled with tiny red and yellow

Where have all the Ethiopian youth gone? To their homes away from home, where they move to the rhythm of rap and reggae and enjoy

A RIFF OF COLTRANE FLOATS OUT OF A JAZZ CLUB AND OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN; across town, modern dancers spin on the stage; and elsewhere a