Kornik. Lutomiersk. Przedborz. Obscure today, perhaps, but these Polish cities and countless others with Jewish quarters were home to bustling communities throughout the 1,000-year history

  You don’t have to wait for Passover to enjoy Mark Podwal’s latest liturgical art, created for Sharing the Journey: The Haggadah for the Contemporary Family

The Ultimate Passover Kitchen How much easier would life be if you could hide away a kosher-for-Passover kitchen until you needed it? No worries that hametz had

FILMS In Darkness The emotions and setting of this Polish film are dark indeed, as it re-creates the experiences of a dozen Jewish men, women

Fiction Foreign Bodies: A Novel by Cynthia Ozick. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 255 pp. $26) Until now, many avid readers of Cynthia Ozick’s fiction have settled

DVD 18 Voices Sing Kol Nidre: The Secrets of a Sacred Chant From Those Who Have Been Touched by It Why does this short, controversial

Major News  Orna Barbivay is Israel’s first female major-general and the new head of the Israel Defense Force’s Manpower Branch. Previously she served as the

Films The Names of Love On the surface a romantic comedy about Arab-Jewish relations, French sociopolitics and the Holocaust, this charming film has characters chatting