Many people know the story of how large numbers of Jews fleeing Hitler’s henchmen found refuge in Shanghai or in Bukhara. Few, however, know that India, too, provided refuge for many Jews during the ...

Daniel Straus’s conference room probably would lend itself to a metaphor — but to come up with it, a visitor would have to stop gawking at the view first. The office is high above the George ...

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel never argued over Jewish values face to face — though they, and their students, certainly disagreed. Rabbi Soloveitchik, known to his ...

When she asked, “Harold, what did you do?” he simply said it was time for him to get out and live life his way.  There were ...

In 1965, a group of marchers — mainly African American, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — advocating for civil rights, particularly the right to vote — made its way from Selma to Montgomery, ...

Seeing all the hot dog carts downtown, he came up with an idea: he bought his own hot dog cart. Of course, it was kosher, ...

Emmanuel Macron has spent years telling Israel what responsible leadership requires. At the United Nations and before the ...

A simple gaze at the world map is an indicator of Israel’s proximity to many places that are far less remote from Jerusalem ...

Authors discuss what’s new in breast cancer genetic testing ...

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Dustin Hoffman, Gene Simmons, Jon Lovitz, and Bob Odenkirk were among the Hollywood names who gathered at UCLA’s Royce Hall ...

My father, David Miller, was 84 then, and almost unrecognizable if you knew what he used to look like. His frail, gaunt frame ...