When I first heard Joe Buchanan’s country music, I assumed he was a Messianic Jew. “How good, how good,” he croons with a Texas drawl over a twangy guitar. “Yeah, God I love the house where you grow.” ...

It’s not every day you hear Abraham’s Hebrew words to God while watching TV — particularly not after sequences where waifish movie stars commit grisly murders. And yet, “You Want It Darker,” the ...

A Moscow audience of 2, 000 that filled the Chaikovsky Conservatory auditorium there to capacity cheered, wept and called for more encores last night when Jan Peerce, famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, ...

Israel Isadore Baline was 5 when his family fled Russia for the United States after a bloody pogrom. It was an event the boy never forgot. He also remembered the day he arrived in his new homeland, ...

One morning in Sunday School at church, when I was five years old, I decided to question the other five-year-olds about their Jewish identities. Upon hearing their answers, I proclaimed loudly, “I’m ...