2) Christmas and Hanukkah collide. For better or worse, being Jewish in the U.S. often means having to miss out on things — people rarely take Jewish holidays or events into account.

On the 75th anniversary of the resurrection of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel, it is Szyk’s unwavering and enduring love of Israel which serves as a model of perpetual devotion and action.

For as long as I can remember, the great Polish-American Jewish artist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) has held a proud place at my Passover seder, courtesy of his hauntingly dynamic illustrations of the ...

Arthur Kahn is believed to be the first Jewish person killed by the Nazis. I’ve known the story of his death as long as I can remember, but I wanted to learn the story of his life.

Arthur Szyk at Contemporary Jewish Museum By Stephanie Wright Hession Feb 12, 2014 “The Family at the Seder” (1936) watercolor and gouache on paper by Arthur Szyk.

Growing up, Levine says, he felt that the Jewish holiday was often eclipsed by the mythology surrounding Christmas, with beloved characters like Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus.

Arthur Szyk's meticulously detailed, fiercely moral, Word War II-era political art is returning to the public consciousness due to 21st-century revival efforts.

Arthur Dinter, leader of the anti-Semitic Voelkische Party and author of several pseudo-scientific books of an anti-Semitic nature, is an anti-Semite only in theory.

As a scholar, author, and activist, Rabbi Arthur Waskow (1933-) has been a leading figure in American Jewish life since 1969 when he published his groundbreaking work, The Freedom Seder, which infused ...

Jewish families haven't always given presents on Hanukkah — it dates only to the 1880s. Arthur Levine's kids' book The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol imagines a fanciful origin for the tradition.

So pause to recall what happened on Nov. 2, 1917, when Britain’s foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, sent a letter to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, the president of the British Zionist Association.

After Arthur Miller’s first Broadway play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck,” bombed, closing after just four performances, the aspiring playwright vowed to find “some other kind of work ...