A series of exhibits focuses on Oscar Rabine. Did his 1978 exile to Paris clear new ground for dissident art?

The recently discovered street photographer trained her lens on my family—and a lost, genteel world

Socalled, Ugandans, and klezmer at North America’s largest gathering of Jewish and Yiddish culture

That hot new website making fun of Jewish Republicans? My husband and I made it—and you’re welcome.

The Syrian diaspora in Israel watches its once-vibrant ancestral home fall to ruin in the country’s civil war

A provocative Paris show of Orientalist art charts the European encounter with Sephardic Jewry

On his centennial, the kids’ illustrator and New Yorker and Daily Worker contributor is celebrated in Miami

The museum removed photos of gay men at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial from an exhibit on sex and identity

As Twitter and text messages force linguistic brevity, English starts to look more like vowel-free Hebrew

Israeli Asaf Hanuka crashes the party in Paris, as the comic-strip-obsessed city hosts Spiegelman and Crumb

A ghostly chaise at Grossinger’s, rubble at the Concord, and other photos of once-great Catskills resorts

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, half of the legendary comics duo, submits to a high-hair makeover for the sake of art