A free performance of a new musical about Vitka Kempner, the Linda Lindas, Elevator Repair Service and more arts headlines ...

“I knew I was a Lebanese Druze,” says Netzer, who was born in Detroit in 1955 and moved to Lebanon at the age of three. “I ...

The best-selling author of “A Man Called Ove,” “Anxious People,” and the “Beartown” trilogy highlights four novels from his ...

When columnist Sue Bowman's former boss passed away, she was asked to provide a very special gift for the service. It ...

Jacques Offenbach was born on June 20, 1819, in Cologne. He was the second son and seventh of ten children of Isaac Yehuda Eberst, later Offenbach, a bookbinder, an itinerant cantor who sang in ...

Local and visiting writers offering new novels and non-fiction titles ranging from reportage to business to memoir (and more!

Decorated flask uncovered in cave-turned-olive press at Horvat 'Anim; symbol of camels’ central role in early Islamic economy ...

During the pandemic, YIVO’s online courses, which started before the whole world pivoted to Zoom, saw a huge uptick that’s kept pace since with classes on Jewish comedy, folk song and Yiddish ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of 35 pro-Palestinian students, faculty members, legal observers, journalists and activists filed ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...