Ortal Eyali is studying Yiddish in the Negev. One of 86 students enrolled in Yiddish language and literature classes at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University, Eyali’s linguistic

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Sometimes, when Cynthia Ozick is looking for a word, she holds her head, closes her eyes and tries to physically claw it out of the

When she is not needed on the set of CBS’s hit show The Big Bang Theory, it is not unusual to find actor Mayim Bialik munching

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Stop! Checkpoint Ahead!” read the hand-lettered words on the pink sign. Students for Justice in Palestine dressed as Israeli soldiers and toting cardboard guns order

At home in the kitchen of his New York apartment, Michael Tucker points to a painting of a stout Italian matron extending a huge, inviting