There have been many changes in Israel over the past six decades: Imagine what another 40 years will bring to the Jewish state. Last night

In Israel, nothing says independence like family, a park and the smell of spicy kebabs, chicken hearts and skewers of marinated beef cooking on a mangal barbecue.

From three continents and four generations, we gathered in Gilo. The pilgrimage to this particular apartment in Jerusalem had begun with a family named Markiewicz

The Israeli film that I would have chosen for an Academy Award nomination in this, the 60th year of the sovereign Jewish state, is Noodle.

As Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence, consider how much life, identity and security have changed for Jews around the world because a

April is a time of commemorations. On Passover, we celebrate our freedom from Egyptian slavery, and a women’s Seder adds a different spin on an

Fiction People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks.(Viking, 372 pp. $25.95) Although People of the Book may call to mind Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s

Exhibits Bob Dylan’s American Journey, 1956-1966 During this decade, Robert Zimmerman left his Jewish home in Hibbing, Minnesota, and transformed himself into Bob Dylan (right)—folk