How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...

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A final book from Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann is characteristically convicting and vivid—but myopic about his ...

In late 2023, playwright Jonathan Spector got a call from Michel Hausmann, the artistic director of Miami New Drama in Florida. This was weeks after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. With the Jewish ...

In 1969, archaeologists excavating the Issyk kurgan in southeastern Kazakhstan made a discovery that would become a national ...

Have you ever thought about the total number of languages that exist today? Well, if you thought that there were just a few hundred, then you are very wrong indeed! In reality, there are more than ...

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On the eve of July 4, 1876, a New York broadside marked America’s centennial with something extraordinary: the first Hebrew ...

Harvey Keitel, who is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for the third time to present a screening of Martin Scorsese's "Mean ...

There is a distinct weight that comes with painting a logo that people have seen on the back of greeting cards for ...

Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as ...