FILMS Violins in Wartime When the Second Lebanon War breaks out in 2006, one likely casualty is the annual international violin master course at Kibbutz

NONFICTION Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 418 pp. $28) Novelist, columnist, playwright, memoirist, winner of

Israeli, Yiddish, American and foreign films of Jewish interest come and go quickly in theaters, at film festivals or at community center screenings. When they

TV Show Returns to Its Homeland…Israel Homeland will begin its second season on Showtime on September 30. The Golden Globe-winning show will also be returning to

FILMS Free Men This superbly acted World War II feature is based on a slice of history that should be better known to Jews and

Revisiting Anne Frank, for Better or for Worse By Sanford Pinsker Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary made her a subject of adoration—and of controversy. Just as

Editor’s Note: Hadassah Magazine interviews figures from across the political spectrum in the United States and Israel. In America, given biennial Congressional contests and long

Kehinde Wiley has traveled the world looking for subjects to paint. The successful Los Angeles-born artist is best know for his “The World Stage” series,