Arts

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Joshua Hammerman wants to amplify the importance of being a mensch in a world with a...

"Geography of Home," by Susan Armington, is a 6-foot by 9-foot map painting of the Twin Cities made out of...

By LINDA BUCHWALD (JTA) — Bluegrass music, barbecue, rodeo, motorcycle clubs, fireworks: five things one doesn’t normally expect to intersect...

From the Strange but True Department: Harpo Marx, the silent member of the Marx Brothers, and surrealist painter Salvador Dali...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Has anyone close to you ever died? How did you react? Relief? Pain? Gratitude? Do you remember...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How much repentance is enough, and how does one compensate when profits from dishonesty were used...

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK (JTA) — While looking at family photos, historian Pamela Nadell noticed how female relatives dressed...

I interviewed Gershon Baskin on my last visit to Israel, in 2013 (7-5-13 AJW). Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most knowledgeable...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Hungarian David Arieh Hersch is said to be the only person to have escaped twice from...

by KAREN CHERNICK (JTA) — When French architectural historian Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey left Paris in 1842, his luggage weighed...