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How did Elijah (and his cup) become part of the seder? And will he be at yours this year? Scholar Daniel C. Matt ponders those questions in his new book.

Netflix Animation has a new offering to follow-up its Oscar-nominated hit, "The Sea Beast." The latest film, "The Magicians Elephant," is a little less boisterous but remains nonetheless a charming tale thats full of heart.

The Magician’s Elephant is predicated on magic and elephants, but its central theme is hope.

When most of us set out to learn a new language, our biggest worries are usually how to conjugate verbs and construct a proper sentence. The last concern

From the blog of Reuven Chaim Klein at The Times of Israel

Like Isaac Bashevis Singer, author Chaim Grade has long been embraced as one of the 20th century’s preeminent writers of Yiddish fiction, a stand

To write her monumental 1996 cookbook, Claudia Roden spent 16 years collecting 800 recipes from around the world.

Scholars say Grade’s personal papers, now online, detail how his tempestuous marriage explains, in part, why he never reached the wider audience of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Christine Stanley, aka Helga Morpurgo, formerly of Sag Harbor, died of heart failure on February 24 at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York. She was 87.

IK architects' school imagines the refurbishment of a damaged building into a modern, multifunctional school complex in kharkiv, ukraine.