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I used to love Passover. Now that I have two small children, I tend to rush through the seders, hoping to tie things up before bedtime. But when I was a child myself, I savored those long nights: the special foods, the table packed with visiting cousins, and the songs, many of which we only ...

In January, Israel’s ministries of culture, science, sports and foreign affairs held a six-day dance showcase at Tel Aviv’s Suzanne Dellal Centre. Hundreds of performers, deeply engaged with issues of gender, struggle and survival, came up against the market demands of bookers and promoters from international theaters and festivals. The performances proved that dance is ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I”I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Sound familiar?
I recently stumbled across those lines by Robert Frost for the first time since high school. I don’t read much poetry these days; with a toddler in ...

On a summer morning in 1958, up on 126th Street in Harlem, Art Kane took a photograph of a group of musicians that included some of the greatest jazz players of all time, such as Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker. The photograph, titled “A Great Day in Harlem,” is now legendary and ...