First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.

In Defense of Netanyahu, Jews in Europe and further thoughts on Jewish travel in Philadelphia.

You are part of the force that built the Hadassah Medical Organization and, today, we are the second-largest employer in Jerusalem. What's more, wherever you go, there is…

Cantor Deborah Katchko-Gray calls her recently released four CDs “a fresh look at old gems.” A Suite Shabbat, recorded live in 2005 at a Friday

On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein. (Simon & Schuster, 553 pp. $32.50) The “eve” in Bernard Wasserstein’s study

In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen. (Riverhead Books, 272 pp. $16 paper) Three weeks after 86-year-old Peter Matthiessen died on April 5, 2014, what he