The former mayor, who had a deep relationship with Catholicism, will be memorialized in a Mass at St. Patrick’s

How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle East

Top Israeli military and intelligence analysts are divided over which side to back in Syria’s civil war

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

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

Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.