‘America’s Mayor,’ who once called for U.S. intervention in Kosovo, is now consulting for Serbian nationalists

The first free presidential election in Egypt begins today. No matter the winner, liberal democracy has lost.

On same-sex marriage, Orthodox Jews should keep the religious and civil separate—as they do on other issues

The Czech Surrealist Jindřich Heisler’s mystical art, on view in Chicago, reflected the Holocaust he avoided

A revival of Yiddish poet H. Leivick’s play reveals a genius at the center of a turn-of-the-century literary scene

A Roy Lichtenstein show at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals the movement’s affront to WASPy decorum

A year after the ‘cottage-cheese protests,’ Israel’s boutique cheese-makers face a busy Shavuot

A well-thumbed book from my Lutheran childhood is now the ideal text for my Shavuot study and reflection

Hip-hop’s new love for Moscato is a boon for one kosher winemaker. And the grape itself couldn’t be more Jewish.