(JTA) — Ah, summertime. A season to take a plunge in a mountain lake, read a trashy novel on the beach and reenact a historical tragedy through a month-long pageant of self-denial and fasting. Wait, what? If you don’t associate summer with...

(JTA) — The 1981 winner of Peru’s competition of Israel’s International Bible Contest did not come from among the country’s many devoted Christians nor from Lima’s elite Jewish school. Instead, the top prize went to Victor Chico, a self-taught...

(JTA) — The flames of the “Jewface” debate have been fanned for years, but the conversation hit a new level of prominence last fall. Kathryn Hahn’s casting as the outspokenly Jewish comedy pioneer Joan Rivers in a TV series (which was eventually...

When Lenny Mink was a high school student at Parkway Central in the late 1980s, he would sneak into the school's empty, dark theater and just sit. There was just something about the peaceful stage that gave Mink a feeling of possibility -- the possibility...

(JTA) – Melissa Bank, whose stories of flawed, funny Jewish heroines searching for love and fulfillment won over readers’ hearts around the world, died Tuesday at age 61 of lung cancer. Bank’s publisher, Penguin, confirmed her death in a statement....

Every time I add a new item to my wardrobe, I give something away. Except for the little black dresses. I started buying them in my 20s and haven’t stopped; I can’t seem to part with them or the memories they carry. Weddings. Bar and bat mitzvahs....

Jennifer Silverberg is one of the premier food photographers in the United States. The Jewish St. Louisan won first place in the national American Photographic Artists food photography competition last year. She was also named one of Lurzer's Archive...

Tu B'Av, a relatively minor Jewish holiday, finds a place in modern Israel as a holiday of love. Considered a romantic Jewish holiday, even secular observers see Tu B’Av as the Jewish equivalent of Valentine’s Day.  Couples often plan their weddings,...

(New York Jewish Week) — Daniel Kalban is a 35-year-old law firm assistant who lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn. But when he’s not working his day job, he moonlights as a comic book writer, in a sort of double-life scenario that’s reminiscent of the...

Leonard Cohen the artist has long been hailed as a musical giant, but the man has been something of a mystery. The Jewish singer/ songwriter’s most famous composition, “Hallelujah,” started out as a sacred song about King David but became a pop...