Left with a Jewish identity in name only, Adam Sobsey traveled to his great-grandparents' hometown in Romania to see what he ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired ...

Lake Tahoe is unlike other natural resources when it comes to management and stewardship. The 500-mile watershed spans two states, five counties and a city. More than 50 years ago, Congress ...

Seasoned hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes shortly before reaching the end of the Appalachian trail. A Maine game warden works to find Valerie, as does a septuagenarian armchair detective in a ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...

No, I did not score Black Sabbath tickets. I certainly tried – say what you will about the insanely inflated prices, the band more than deserving their retirement at this stage, or the excruciatingly ...

a key hymn welcoming the Sabbath. But this service also leads with a prayer for the people of Gaza, composed by Rabbi Brant Rosen: "In this moment of ceasefire," a congregant reads, "let us remain ...

During his 37 years at Bethel, Daniel Ritchie taught English literature and (in 2002) guided Bethel's efforts to begin a multi-course Humanities Program. During his career, he won grants from the the ...