Arts & Culture

Leave it to Eric A. Kimmel, author of the classic “Hershel and the Han­ukkah Goblins,” whose scores of award-winning Jewish children’s books often feature mythical spirits – to craft a lighthearted Rosh Hashanah tale that...

I am reasonably sure that I was the only kid who ever brought peanut butter and jelly on matzoh sandwiches to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School. Pickles, too, were no stranger to my...

There are many moments in “The U.S. and the Holocaust” – the new six-hour, three-part documentary by Ken Burns and his team at Florentine Films – when you can scarcely believe what you are seeing...

STOCKBRIDGE – Letty learned the family secret on a blustery spring day at a family bar mitzvah celebration in Winthrop. She was 12 at the time. An obnoxious older cousin blurted it out. Now, more...

PEABODY – When Rabbi Eli Perlman’s congregation in New Jersey fell on hard times, his brother Rabbi Richard “Rick” Perlman was listening from his Peabody pulpit at Temple Ner Tamid of the North Shore. Now...

Golda Meir was no longer Israeli prime minister when she gave a speech at the Knesset in 1977. Yet Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat had wanted to meet her during his visit to Israel for a...

CAMBRIDGE – Thirty years ago, four white police officers were acquitted for the beating of black motorist Rodney King. One year later, Anna Deavere Smith interviewed about 350 Los Angelinos for what became wide-ranging verbatim...

BOSTON – Should you happen to find yourself in the Fenway neighborhood this fall – perhaps watching the Red Sox get trounced once more – you might spot something surprising on Van Ness Street: An...

We asked the artists how they interpret the concept of tzedakah, and how their work expresses it. Jason Talbot, Our Family Tree For me Tzedakah is about bringing forth justice by giving to the less...

Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield will mark its 75th Anniversary as a congregation this month with a weekend of activities beginning on Friday, Sept. 9 with a musical Shabbat featuring Bashert and the dedication of the Selma...