The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90

As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar test

Israeli society debates the value of Haredi jobs, but Patrick Leigh Fermor saw the ultra-Orthodox hard at work

Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year

Saul Bellow was a complicated father to his three sons. In a new book, the eldest tries to parse his inheritance.

The show’s demise is a blow for musical theater—the art that incorporates virtually every other form of art

Video: Astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo’s home reflects her mixed heritage—and wide-ranging spirituality

This week’s Talmud reading prompts strikingly contemporary questions about observance and belief

Molecular gastronomy finally takes off in Israel, drawing kosher foodies and experimental chefs alike